512 ON CARADID.-E FROM WEST AUSTRALIA, 



(each elytron obliquely subtruncate at apex), striate, a very short 

 striole at base of first interstice; ungues simple. Opaque, brownish- 

 black; elytra narrowly uiarginerl with brown, legs and basal joint 

 of antennre testaceous; antennte and mouth-parts piceous-red. 



Head large (1-25 x 1-3 mm.), convex; upper surface densely 

 covei-ed with a strong puncturation (the punctures separate); 

 clypeus truncate, gently declivous, minutely punctate; eyes deeply 

 set in orbits, conve.x, not prominent; postocular processes about 

 two-thirds the size of eyes, roundly and strongly narrowed 

 posteriorly. Prothorax a little wider than head, broader than 

 long (125 X 1-5 mm.), convex, widest a little behind anterior 

 angles, lightly narrowed to base; sides lightly rounded anteriorly, 

 sinuate in front of posterior angles; apex emarginate-truncate; 

 anterior angles rounded, not marked; posterior angles forming a 

 short acute prominence ; basal curve rounded above peduncle, 

 widely and lightly sinuate behind posterior angles; lateral border 

 narrow, strongly reflexed at posterior angles. Elytra widely oval 

 (3-5 X 2 "4 mm.), widest about posterior third, lightly and evenly 

 convex; base deeply and roundly emarginate; sides rounded; 

 shoulders rounded, advanced; external apical angles rounded; 

 inner apical angle of each elytron widely rounded, not marked; 

 strife lightly impressed, finely punctate ; interstices finely sha- 

 greened, third bipunctate, ninth punctate — the punctures few and 

 separate ; lateral margins rather wide and depressed ; border 

 narrow, extending round humeral angles to l:»ase of first interstice, 

 reflexed on anterior part of sides. 



Length 65, breadth 2-4 mm. 



Hah. —Beverley (Lea). 



Differs from N. australis, Chaud., by having the head not 

 strongly rugose; the prothorax narrower, not so strongly and 

 closely rugose; the elytra not sericeous; the femora not piceous, 

 &G.; from jY. interstiiialis it differs by its more rugose head, its 

 longer and less convex elytra with the interstices not punctate, &c. 



130. N. INTERSTITIALIS, n.sp. 



Depressed; head large, rugulose-punctate; prothorax ti'uncate- 

 cordate, strongly transversely striolate on disc, rugulose-punctate 



