618 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



lateral stripes are not quite continuous to the apex, the ochreous 

 scales being continued on the outer margin. There are no nude 

 spaces between the stripes, but here and there nude punctures 

 (al»raded ?) may be seen. 



At first sight this species resembles scenicus, but it may be at 

 once distinguished by its larger size, glittering scales (on the 

 prothorax of scenicus there are seven stripes of which the three 

 white ones are small; in micans the white scales occupy more 

 than half the surface), but in particular by the width of prothorax, 

 in sccu/'ciis the base being scarcely wider than the apex, and 

 distinctly much narrower than the base of elytra. 



Pantoreites illuminatus, n.sp. 



Dull red, claws and tibial teeth piceous. Head feebly squamose 

 on vertex, the scales all converging to centre; sides, between eyes 

 and base of rostrum, with small dense snowy scales; prothorax with 

 three distinct longitudinal snowy vittee scarcely reaching apex , the 

 median widening to near base, sides similarly clothed; scutellum 

 densely squamose; elytra with small, subquadrate, snowy scales, 

 densely covering suture and to a less extent, but still densely, the 

 sides; from the middle to near apex a subtriangular space sparsely 

 clothed (except along suture) towards its apex and almost nude 

 at base, near scutellum sparsely clothed ; interstices slightly 

 interrupting continuity of scales ; under surface x'ather more 

 densely squamose than upper, the scales more elongate and of a 

 less pure white than above, except on sides of sterna, where the}' 

 are densest of all. 



Head convex, punctate, a puncture between eyes; eyes trans- 

 versely ovate, moderately large. Rostrum shorter than head, 

 subparallel, punctate, a feeble irregular ridge between antenna;. 

 Scape slightly curved; three basal joints of funicle moderately 

 elongate, 4th triangular, 5th-7th globular. Prothorax almost 

 cylindrical, densely punctate, each puncture bearing a small scale; 

 a feeble carina only noticeable at base. Scutellum small, oblong. 

 Elytra about once and one-half the width of prothorax, feeblj^ 

 -decreasing to apex; shoulders slightly oblique; seriate-punctate,. 



