152 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



the suture. The outer costa on the elytra curves from the shoulder 

 (towards the suture) to a callus near the apex, about half way 

 between the suture and lateral margin ; the inner costa is nearly 

 parallel to the outer one, is nearer to it than to the suture, and 

 joins it on the subapical callus. Both costse are wide and rounded 

 and (except near their apex) only feebly defined ; the front half of 

 the space between them is occupied by a double line of elongate 

 scratch-like punctures which become continuous or stria-like in the 

 hinder half, a similar stria-like scratch bordering the inner edge of 

 the inner costa in its hinder half, and another (interrupted in the 

 middle) running close outside the sutural costa. Outside the outer 

 costa genuine puncturation begiias, which, however, in the hinder 

 half of the elytron, and at its apex, changes near the margin into 

 a system of transverse strong scratches. The upper tooth on the 

 external margin of the front tibife is similar to the lower ones but 

 decidedly smaller than them. The mesosternal process projects 

 forward in a somewhat tubercle-like manner from the level of the 

 intermediate coxse. 



This species belongs to a section of Glycypliana not previously 

 recorded as Australian, distinguished from the section in which 

 C. brunnipes, Kirby, falls by the absence of scale-like hairs on the 

 u))per surface, the teeth on the anterior tibioe, and many other 

 characters. It is structurally near to some Javanese species, but 

 I do not know of any that resembles it specifically, 



N. Queensland ; presented to me by C. French, Esq. 



Neocuris viridiaurea, Macl. 



In my own collection there is an example, and the South 

 Australian Museum contains another, which would not appear 

 capable of being sepai'ated from this species, as described by its 

 author. The species belongs to the section of the genus (as 

 divided by M. Fairemaire), having the head devoid of a longi- 

 tudinal excavation : in my example the head is not quite 

 absolutely without indications of concavity down the middle, 

 but in that of the South Australian Museum, and also that 



