"540 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. IV. 



between them in front being rather more than the length of their 

 shortest diameter; prothorax finely punctured, its margins minutely 

 waved ; elytra closely lineate-punctate, the punctures well-marked 

 the margins very narrow ; body beneath and legs black, shining ; 

 itarsi and lip with ferruginous hairs" (Pascoe). 



Length, 11 lines. 



Hah. — South Australia. 



40. Pterohel^us pusillus, Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Ser. 2, Vol. IT. p. 307. 

 Hah. — Barron River, N. Queensland. 



41. Pterohel^us nitidissimus, Pascoe. 



Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4, Vol. III. 1869, p. 282 ; P. striato- 

 punctatus, Breme, Mon. Cossyph. I. p. 31, pi. II. fig. 6. 



" Oval, moderately convex, very glossy deep black ; head finely 

 and closely punctured, clypeal groove broad and shallow ; prothorax 

 very minutely and rather closely punctured, rounded at the sides, 

 the edge of the expanded margin anteriorly recurved, an irregular 

 well-marked groove at the base interrupted in the middle ; scu- 

 tellum curvilinearly triangular ; elytra a little contracted behind 

 the shoulders, very finely seriate-punctate, the punctures less regu- 

 larly arranged near the suture ; body beneath and legs very glossy, 

 black, propectus opaque, granulate ; antennae reaching to the base 

 of the prothorax, third joint half as long again as the fourth" 

 (Pascoe). 



Length, 5-5 1 lines. 



Hah. — South Australia. 



This is a common South Australian species. Mr. Pascoe 

 changed De Breme's name, as Boisduval had given it previously 

 to what is evidently a very difierent species. 



