568 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



is scarcely wider than it. The suture between the metasternum 

 and its episterna is arched. 



S. Australia ; interior. 



N.B. — In the South Australian Museum there is a specimen 

 (devoid of tarsi and antennae) which I am disposed to regard as 

 the female of this species. It ditfei's from my own example in 

 being more nitid and of a reddish testaceous colour (possibly 

 immature), in the marginal row of elytral punctures being 

 stronger, in the tibiae not being tomentose, in the sutures between 

 the metasternum and its episterna being straight, in the elytra 

 being devoid of wrinkles, and in the prosternum being depressed 

 between the coxse (possibly owing to immaturity). 



Hypocilibe rotundata, sp.nov. 



{J (?) Late ovata ; supra minus, subtus plus, nitida ; piceo- 

 nigra, elytris brunnescentibus ; capite sparsim subtilissime, 

 segmentis ventralibus subtiliter sat crebre, segmentis ceteris 

 vix manifesto, punctulatis ; prothorace quam longiori duplo 

 latiori, postice qnam antice plus duabus partibus latiori, 

 antice arcuatim sat profunde emarginato, latitudine majori 

 vix pone medium posita, lateribus sat rotund atis postice (nisi 

 ad angulos posticos ipsos) vix sinuatis, angulis omnibus sat 

 acutis ; elytris prothorace tertia parte latioribus, postice 

 minus abrupte declivibus ; tibiis posterioribus intus lineatim 

 tomentosis. [Long. 10, lat. Ql lines. 



The length of the prothorax down the middle is 2? lines, while 

 the distance between the apices of the anterior and posterior 

 angles is 2i lines, and the middle of a line joining the apices of 

 the two front angles would be scarcely h line distant from the 

 middle of the front of the prothorax. The gular furrow and sub- 

 mentum resemble those of IT. major. The prosternum is slightly 

 bisinuate in front, — behind it is like that of H. Iceta but is some- 

 what rugulose. The anterior coxae are punctulate, the intermediate 

 strigose. The row of punctures close to the margin of the elytra is 

 scarcely indicated. The lateral gutter of the prothorax is wide and 



