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elevated into an obtuse point, posterior angles salient and recurved 

 backwards. Elytra dilated behind the humeral angles, narrowing 

 a little towards the middle and apex, the disk very convex, oval, 

 nitid, irregularly punctate, with on each elytron four rows of small 

 tufts of reddish-brown hair, much thinner and shorter than in H. 

 perforatus and with scarcely a trace of puncturation on the 

 margins. In all else like H. perforatus. 

 Long. 12i lines, lat. 8 lines. 



Hah. — Swan River. 



69. Hel^us Spencii, Breme. 



Mon. Cossyph. I. p. 58, pi. VI. fig. 5. 



Like the last two species. Entirely of a nitid blackish brown, 

 with some fulvous reflections. Head as in H. perforatus, but a 

 little longer. Antennae of the same form but shorter and velvety. 

 Thorax narrower relatively to the size than that of H. perforatus: 

 and carinated in the same way, not visibly punctate, slightly 

 sinuate behind, the posterior angles very little recurved behind ; 

 the margins as in H. p)erforat%is. Elytra dilated and rounded 

 posteriorly, of the width of the thorax at the base, the humeral 

 angles rounded, the disk convex, elongate oval, nitid, irregularly 

 punctate, with on each elytron four rows of very fine fulvous 

 hairs exceedingly short and forming a compact brush; the margins 

 as in the preceding species, scarcely perceptibly punctate, more 

 narrow towards the apex than on the sides. Under surface and 

 legs as in JEL. perforatus. 



Long. 12| lines, lat. 7 lines. 



Hah. — New Holland. 



3. Elytra costate. 



70. HEL.iEus moniliferus, Pascoe. 



Journ. of Ent. II. p. 463, 



Broadly ovate, deep brown or black, sub-nitid. Head rugose^ 

 clypeus and labrum tiuncate, forehead lightly canaliculate, the 



