BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, P.L.S., &C. 545 



length, with nari'ow reflected Literal margins, the disk densely- 

 punctate in numerovis close strise, the punctures deep, close and 

 somewhat square, the interstices a little raised and very narrow. 

 Body beneath piceous, nitid. Sterna coarsely punctate. 

 Length, 3 lines, lat. 2 lines. 



Hab. — Clyde River. 



51. PTEROHELiEUS PELTATUS, Erichs. 



Cilihe 23<iltata, Erichs. Ai'chiv fiir ISTaturg. Jahrg. VIII, Bd. I, 

 p. 175. 



Oblong-oval, sub-depressed, piceous, sub-opaque. Head im- 

 punctate, clypeus dilated, truncate at the apex. Thorax lightly 

 bisinuate at the base, twice as broad at the base as the length, the 

 sides rounded, the apex deeply emarginate, iriipunctate, slightly 

 convex on the disk, the margins broadly flattened, obscurely red, 

 and reflected on the edge. Elytra slightly convex, densely seriate- 

 punctate with two of the interstices slightly raised, the margins 

 broad, smooth, and obscurely reddish. 



Length, 5-5|^ lines. 



Hab. — Tasmania, Victoria. 



52. PTEROHELiEUS CEREUS, n. Sp. 



Broadly ovate, black, nitid, of a waxy gloss. Head rugosely 

 punctate, the clypeus slightly reflected in front, the lateral angles 

 more so. Thorax very transverse, much narrowed and emarginate 

 in front, bisinuate behind, minutely punctate on the disk and 

 margins, the disk rather convex, with the median line showing on 

 the anterior half, the margins broad and reflected in front, broader 

 and flat towards the posterior angles. Elytra rather broader than 

 the thorax, disk rather convex, and covered with tolerably regular 

 close rows of smallish punctures, the mai'gins tolerably wide, 

 widest a little behind the shoulders, then narrowing to the apex, 

 and transversely rugose. 



Long. 6 lines, lat. 3^ lines. 



Hab. — West Australia. 



