646 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. V. 



75. Hel^us castor, Pascoe. 



Journ. of Ent. II. p. 464. 



" Broadly ovate, brownish, scarcely shining, margins of the 

 prothorax and elytra broad and only slightly reflexed, the edges 

 with an erect narrow border ; antennae nearly linear ; prothorax 

 with short, scattered bristly hairs, the perforated portion with an 

 elevated margin, disk with a sharp longitudinal line, posterior 

 angles falcate, overlapping the elytra; scutellum broadly triangular ; 

 elytra irregularly punctured, and clothed with numerous scattered 

 minute bristles, costa on each side of the suture terminating at 

 about a third from the apex ; body beneath dark brown ; legs 

 rugose " (Pascoe). 



Length, 9 lines. 



Hah. — South Austi-alia. 



This is the most nearly circular-shaped species I know. The 

 breadth is very slightly less than the length, 



76. Heleus falcatus, Pascoe. 



Journ. of Ent. II. p. 464. 



Ovate, black, thorax obsoletely granulate, strongly carinate in 

 the middle, the anterior angles crossing and terminating in an 

 acute point, the margin moderately recurved. Elytra broad and 

 broadly margined, very glossy, rather faintly and rugosely punc- 

 tate and sparsely clothed with minute set£e, with the suture 

 strongly carinate, and a costa on each side reaching from the base 

 to one-third from the apex, sharply elevated and rather crenulate 

 on both sides ; the margins are smooth and are bordered on the 

 inner side by a row of granules. In all else like H. Peronii. 



Long. 5| lines, lat. 3| lines. 



Hah. — South Australia. 



