BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 543 



prominent. Thorax moderately transverse, not sinuate behind, 

 finely punctate, convex, and rounded laterally ; margins broad and 

 wrinkled, punctate and of a less deep brown ; the anterior angles 

 extending a little beyond the half of the head. Elytra convex, 

 parallel, somewhat feebly compressed at the humeral region (which 

 is also raised into a boss), rounded behind, strongly punctate (these 

 impressed punctures are disposed in very close lines) ; the margins 

 very narrow, but quite visible and turned up. Antennse fulvous, 

 velvety ; legs and undersurface of body ; deep shiny-brown. 



Long. 7 lines, lat. 3^ lines. 



Hah. — Swan Rivei*. 



47. PTEROHELiEUS ovuLUM, Haag-Rut. 



Journ. Mus. Godef. Heft 14, p. 115, taf. 7, fig.l— Verh. Ver, 

 fiir naturw. Unterh. in Hamburg, III. p. 97. 



Regularly oval, blackish brown, opaque ; head dispersedly 

 punctate ; thorax scarcely punctate, three times broader than long, 

 much narrowed in front ; elytra broader than the thorax, little 

 convex, the margins flattened out, with the suture and eight 

 costse slightly elevated, and the intervals regularly punctate. 

 Body beneath rather nitid, sparingly punctulate and striolate. 



Long. 6|-7 lines, lat. 4^ lines. 



Hah. — Gayndah, Queensland. 



This species is found over a great part of North Queensland. 

 It is not unlikely that there are more than one species of the type 



48. Pterohel^us confusus, Macleay. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. II., p. 283. 



Ovate, black, sub-nitid. Head a little widened and elevated in 



front of the eyes, and scarcely emarginate in front, with the 



central canaliculation minute, the semicircular clypeal suture well 



marked, and a transverse raised line near the apex of the clypeus. 



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