6i2 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OP CAkABlcJ;, 



Note. — There seems a likelihood that C. virescens may itself 

 be only a variety of C. sviaraydnluni Westw.; but, at present, 

 C. sDKiragduhun is unknown to me in nature Its habitat seems 

 to be the Swan River district. 



Cakenum browni, n.sp. 



Elliptical-oval, subdepressed, Isevigate. Head large, frontal 

 sulci strongly divergent; prothorax transverse, sides rounded, 

 anterior angles porrect, posterior airgles rounded, base bisinuate 

 and widely sublobate, border reflexed, widest at posterior angles, 

 lateral channel wide, 3-punctate; elytra truncate-oval, bipunc- 

 tate above apical declivity, border wide, thickened at humeral 

 angles, obsolete on base; anterior tibiae 3-dentate. Black. 



Head transverse (7 mm. across eyes), lightly narrowed behind 

 eyes, depressed; frontal sulci rather short, strongly divergent 

 posteriorly; clypeus sloping gently to anterior margin, median 

 part wide, truncate, intermediate angles prominent, triangular; 

 preocular sulcus well marked; eyes convex, pi'ominent. Pro- 

 thorax transverse (6-3 x 93 ram.); margins wide; sides rounded; 

 anterior angles wide, rounded, strongly advanced ; posterior 

 angles rounded, subprominent near basal sinuosities; basal curve 

 short, bisinuate, median part wide, lightly rounded between 

 sinuosities; border reflexed on sides, wide at posterioi- angles, 

 narrow on middle of base; marginal channel wide; median line 

 lightly impressed; three marginal punctures on each side, the 

 posterior puncture a little before posteiior angle. Elytra o\al, 

 hardly wider than prothorax (14'5 x 9 o mm ), lightly rounded 

 on sides: base wide, lightly emarginate; apical curve wide, even; 

 humeral angles thick, raised, not bordered on inner side; lateral 

 border retiexed, thickened at humeral angles, closing lateial 

 channel by uniting with body of elytra; lateral channel wide: a 

 transverse row of four fine punctures on each side of base; a row 

 of closely placed ocellate punctures along sides. Prosternum 

 wide between coxse, two or three setigerous punctures on each 

 side; basal declivity' wide, abrupt, its outer angles projecting 

 strongly near peduncle. Length, 28; breadth, 9-5 mm. 



Ilab. — W.A. : Anketell (Brown). Type in Coll. Sloans. 



