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convex, nitid, feebly crimped on each side towards the middle of 

 the bod}/ and at the margin, a very prominent sutural carina, on 

 each elytron near the suture a short raised carina extending from 

 the base to two-thirds of their length ; the margins as broad as that 

 of the prothorax, more narrow behind, irregularly wavy, and 

 folded above on the border. The undersurface is of a very nitid 

 brown and punctate. 



Long. 8| lines, lat. 4| lines. 



Hah. — King George's Sound. 



72, Hel^us Mastersi, Pascoe. 



Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4 Vol. V. p. 99. 



" Broadly obovate, dark brown, covered with a loose greyish 

 dust-like squamosity, and furnished above with short erect black 

 bristles ; eyes approximate, nearly covered by the prothorax ; the 

 latter impunctate, nearly semi-circular, not narrowed at the base, 

 the margin broad, slightly concave, the centre with a narrow very 

 distinct longitudinal ridge not quite extending tothebase; scutellum 

 transverse ; elytra as broad at the base as long, broadest behind 

 the middle, sides of the disk very convex, the margins moderately 

 foliaceous, irregularly punctured ; the intervals of the punctures 

 with short bristles, the suture finely raised, and at a short distance 

 on each of it a strong carina not reaching to the apex, another, but 

 nearly obsolete, at the same distance on the outer side ; body 

 beneath and legs dull brown, the latter especially covered with 

 short hairs " (Pascoe). 

 Length, 6^-7^ lines. 



Hah. — Salt River, West Australia. 



73. HELiEus Peronii, Boisd. 



Voy. de I'Astrol. p. 259.— Breme, Mon. Cossyph. L p. 66, pi. V. 

 fig. 3. 



Oval, deep brownish-black, glabrous. Head finely rugose, nearly 

 square, clypeus convex and slightly emarginate in front, its angles 



