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8 ON THE COLEOPTERA OP AUSTRALIA, 



prominent, incurved, strongly and sparingly punctured. Antennae 

 about as long as the prothorax and elytra together, robust, some- 

 what flattened ; the third joint nearly as long as the first, the 

 succeeding joints slightly increasing in length towards the apex, 

 the terminal one longer and a trifle narrower than the rest. 

 Prothorax broadly transverse, slightly narrower in front than 

 behind, strongly, irregularly, and sparingly punctured on the disc, 

 a little more strongly and closely punctured near the posterior 

 angles ; anterior margin gently sinuate on each side ; the sides 

 rather strongly reflexed and strongly produced just before the 

 middle, narrowed obliquely both before and behind this pi'oduc- 

 tion ; the posterior margin feebly bisinuate. Scutellum rounded 

 behind, rather strongly punctured. Elytra at the base broader 

 than the prothorax, parallel-sided, arcuately rounded posteriorly, 

 very strongly, irregularly, and not very closely punctured on the 

 disc, the punctuation inclining to rugosity beyond the middle 

 and near the sides ; each with two very indistinct costte on the 

 disc which are entirely effaced about three-fourths from the base ; 

 the suture somewhat raised. Underside moderately thickly 

 covered with fine testaceous pubescence ; abdominal segments 

 finely punctured. Legs thickly clothed with reddish-yellow 

 pubescence, rather closely punctured ; the spongy undersurface 

 of the first three joints of the tarsi testaceous. Length 

 17-20 mm. 



Duaringa, Dawson River, Queensland (G. Barnard). 



Allied to Notliophysis lucanoides, Serv., from South Australia, 

 but distinguished by its more convex and rather more strongly 

 punctured elytra (of which the costse are less strongly raised), 

 and by the greater space between the eyes. 



MONOHAMMUS AESTHETICUS, Sp.n. 



Elongate, densely covered with umber-brown pile, head with a 

 distinct median line, somewhat impressed between the antennae ; 

 prothorax with the lateral spines prominent and acute, strongly 

 and sparingly punctured on the disc on either side of the middle ; 



