BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 205 



Hah. — Monaro District, N.S.W.; 2 specimens (Q) in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum collection, and 1 in that of Sir William Macleay. 



It has probably rather a wide range in the mountainous parts 

 of S. E. Australia ; a specimen (^) in my collection from Goulburn, 

 N.S.W., has the general form rather more elongate and parallel, 

 and the median line hardly at all marked ; I cannot, however, 

 regard it as a diflerent species. P. Mastersi is very closely allied 

 to P. gibbosus, of which it seems to be the continental representa- 

 tive ; it has, however, less deeply striate elytra with a coppery 

 tinge in the stritE, and the tarsi appear (judging by comparison of 

 the 9) narrower, the last joint of the hind tarsi being not so broad 

 and more decidedly narrowed to the base. 



Promecoderus bassi. 



P. bo/ssi, Casteln. I.e. p. 166 ; Putz. Revis. 1873, p. 329. 



This species is unknown to me ; the following is a translation 

 of M. Putzeys' very full description of it. 



In its prothorax hardly narrowed towards the base with the 

 angles very rounded, and in its elytra very wide in the middle 

 this species is allied to the first group [P. brunnicornis, &c.] ; 

 but in all its other chai'acters it belongs to the third [P. gibbosiis, 

 (fee] * It is of a dark bronze, vexy brilliant ; however one of the 

 specimens T have before me has the elytra of a bronzed green. 

 The parts of the mouth, the base and extremity of the antennae, 

 and the tarsi are of a rather clear brown. The lateral lobes of 

 the mentum end in a point on the internal side, the tooth is 

 narrow, not emarginate. The antennoe do not reach the second 

 marginal point of the prothorax. The two punctures situated 



* The groups M. Putzeys refers to are the three main divisions into 

 which that author divided Promecoderus (mde Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. IV., 

 1873, pp. 320, 321). The second of these included only the species belong- 

 ing to de Castelnan's genus Cerotalis ; the first and third were separated 

 chiefly by the conformation of the posterior angles of the marginal border 

 of the prothorax ; these being in the first very lightly marked or even 

 rounded, and in the third always well marked. To me M. Putzeys' 

 divisions have seemed wanting in exactness, and to result in a very 

 artificial grouping of the species, therefore I have found myself unable to 

 follow them. 



