BY THOMAS G. SLOANB. 463 



behind the shoulders, the base less squarely truncate, the humeral 

 angles wider; the colour a deeper black, &c. 



Genus Notophilus. 



51. N. GRACILIS, Blkb.; I.e. Supp. Sp. 7465. Hab. — Beverley, 

 Darling Ranges, Pinjarrah, Bunbury (Lea). 



52. N. OBLiQUUS, n.sp. 



Alate, elliptical; dorsal surface depressed, minutely shagreened; 

 prothorax broader than long, obliquely narrowed to base, hardly 

 wider across base than apex, bordered on whole circumference; 

 elytra finely striate, stride obsolete on sides, third interstice uni- 

 punctate a little in front of apical declivity. Black, shining, 

 basal joint of antennae testaceous. 



Head large (not short), smooth ; frontal impressions feebly 

 impressed (nearly obsolete); lateral punctures of clypeus large; 

 eyes convex, not prominent. Prothorax lightly transverse 

 (0-7 X 09 mm.), widest before the middle (at marginal seta); sides 

 lightly rounded anteriorly, oblique posteriorly ; apex truncate 

 (hardly emarginate) ; anterior angles rounded, not advanced; 

 basal angles obtuse, lightly marked ; base lightly bisinuate, 

 arcuate in middle, a little oblique at each side; border lightly 

 reflexed on sides, very fine on middle of base and apex; a wide 

 transverse impression a little before the base terminating on each 

 side in a shallow rounded depression; a shallow arcuate impression 

 across anterior part of disc; median line obsolete. Elytra wider 

 than prothorax (2-1 x 1-3 mm.), widest behind middle, depressed 

 on disc; base much wider than base of prothorax; humeral angles 

 rounded; sides lightly rounded; apex shortly arcuate, widely sub- 

 sinuate on each side; striae shallow, all marked at apex, only four 

 inner ones marked on disc, eighth obsolete on sides; ninth inter- 

 stice wide at apex, punctate near shoulders and apex ; border 

 narrowly reflexed. 



Length 3 3, breadth 1-3 mm. 



Ilab. — Geraldton (Lea, one specimen). 



