584 notes on australian coleoptera, 



Agestra. 



The following species may, I think, be placed in this genus, as 

 it does not differ more widely in its structure from the characters 

 Mr. Pascoe attributes to the genus than does the second species 

 placed in it by Mr. Pascoe himself. The following are the struc- 

 tural characters of the insect before me : rostrum somewhat stout 

 and cylindric, scarcely arched and scarcely so long as the pro- 

 thorax, its upper surface almost to the apex continuing the 

 puncturation of the head, its scrobes median and very oblique ; 

 scape of antennae scarcely attaining the lower part of the eye, 

 funiculus 7-jointed, stout, its basal joint not much longer than 

 wide, but very much larger than the 2nd ; eyes slightly prominent, 

 finely granulated ; prothorax gently transverse, its base scarcely 

 bisinuate, no ocular lobes ; elytra oblong, much wider than the 

 prothorax ; intermediate coxae scarcely further apart than in 

 Olancea ; femora with a small tooth beneath ; apical mucro of 

 anterior tibise very feeble ; claws widely divergent (but not 

 divaricate), claw joint of normal length ; 2nd ventral segment 

 decidedly shorter than 3rd and 4th together ; ventral sutures not 

 angular laterally, the 1st gently arched in the middle. Body 

 clothed with erect setae. 



Agestra punctulata, sp.no v. 



Rufa, corpore subtus sutura et elytrorum lateribus obscuri- 

 oribus, antennarum clava nigrescenti; supra setulis erectis 

 pallidis vestita ; rostro capite prothoi'aceque sat crebre 

 punctulatis ; elytris punctulato-striatis, interstitiis sat planis 

 punctulatis ; corpore subtus sat crebre subfortiter punctulato. 



[Long. I5, lat. 5 line (vix). 



S. Australia; near Adelaide. 



Cydm^a lineata, sp.nov. 



Breviter elliptica ; picea ; squamis (subtus et in pedibus griseo- 

 subviridibus, supra aliis griseis aliis ochraceis aliis nigrescenti- 

 bus) vestita ; squamis griseis vel ochraceis in elytris angustis- 



