362 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



viridibus, capite postice nigro ; hoc longitudinaliter fortiter 

 sulcato, antice (pai^te testacea) coriaceo, postice (parte nigra) 

 crassissime rugulosissime punctulato ; prothorace quana 

 longiori duplo latiori, crassissime rugulose nee profunde 

 punctulato, antice quam postice sat angustiori, disco utrinque 

 impresso, margine antico subtruncato, angulis anticis denti" 

 forniibus, posticis acute rectis, lateribus ab angulis anticis 

 fere ad medium divergentibus (hie subangulatis), hinc ad 

 basin subparallelis, basi ad latera (manifeste) et in medio 

 (sat obsolete) emajginata ; elytris sat late marginatis, crebre 

 aspere fortiter punctulatis ; segmento ventrali (? maris) 

 longitudinaliter carinato, apice elevato-emarginato. 



[Long. 3, lat. Ig lines. 



The elytra are of a somewhat unusual colour — a bright pale 

 green. 



N. S. Wales ; Richmond Riv'er district ; sent to me by Mi*. 



T. G. Sloane. 



Menippus elegans, sp.nov. 



Elongato-oblongus ; sat robustus ; albido-pubescens ; tes- 

 taceus ; capite postice, antennis (articulorum basalium basi 

 excepta), in prothorace maculis nonnullis, metasterno, ab- 

 domine in parte, femorum apice, tibiis, tarsisque, infuscatis 

 vel nigris ; elytris laete viridibus ; antennis robustis, cor- 

 poris dimidio vix longitudine aeqnalibus, articulo 1° 3° sat 

 sequali, his 4° paullo longioribus ; prothorace quam longiori 

 duplo latiori, antice quam postice paullo latiori, ante medium 

 fortiter insequaliter transversim sulcato, a sulco ad basin in 

 medio longitudinaliter impresso, sulco efc spatio depresso 

 maculatim infuscatis ; lateribus bisinuatis antice baud 

 marginatis, angulis anticis obscuris, posticis obtusis, basi 

 leviter trisinuata ; capite postice confertim crasse rugulose, 

 prothorace crassissime rugulose minus crebre, elytris con- 

 fertim rugulose subtilius, punctulatis ; elytrorum epipleuris 

 multo post medium continuatis ; tibiis extus longitudinaliter 

 sulcatis, apice intus inermibus ; unguiculis in medio breviter 

 acute dentatis, fere subbifidis. [Long. Sj, lat. Ig lines. 



