BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., <fec. 6il 



2. Elytra pilose. 

 67. Hel^us perforatus, Latreille. 



Fam. Naturelle, 2ud Ed. Vol. II. p. 32, pi. III. fig. 6— (iuerin 

 et Perch. Gen. des Ins. 3 liv. N. 7, pi. XI.— Boisd. Voy. de 

 I'Astrol. p. 361.— De Breme, Mon. Co.ssypli. I. p. 55, pi. VI. fig. 2. 



Broadly ovate, black, sometimes a little violet black. Head 

 advanced, subrugose, a little longer than broad, clypeus convex, 

 the angle of the epicranium i-aised, the forehead canaliculate 

 between the eyes : labrum salient, as well as the palpi. Antennse 

 about Ih times the length of the thorax, the seventh joint slightly 

 rounded, the two following globular, the last joint larger and 

 pointed. Thorax transverse, sub-sinuated posteriorly, rounded on 

 the sides and narrowed in front, the disk a little punctate, slightly 

 convex, not perceptibly carinate, but with a perceptible tubercle on 

 the median line towards the base, the margins very dilated, thin, 

 recurved and very minutely granulate, the anterior angles dilated, 

 rounded and meeting or slightly crossing in front of the head, the 

 posterior angles pointing a little backwards. Elytra oval, a little 

 dilated behind the humeral angles, rounded towards the apex, the 

 disk very convex, oval, nitid, irregularly punctate, each elytron 

 with four rows of long crisp hairs, these hairs are generally black, 

 but sometimes reddish at the point, and planted in bundles ; the 

 margins are very dilated, a little larger than those of the thorax. 

 The under surface entirely black and punctate. Legs black, tibiae 

 rugose. 



Long. 1 3| lines, lat. 8| lines. 



Sab. — South and Western Australia. 



68. Hel.eus Kirbyi, Breme. 



Mon. Cossyph. I. p. 57, pi. VI. fig. 4. 



Very like H. perforatus but of a grayer black and a little less 

 -dull. Thorax more narrowed on each side and more strongly 

 carinate, particularly towards the base where the median line is 



