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row of lateral punctures even more closely set than the pre- 

 ceding. Abdomen striolate, apical segment minutely and 

 closely punctate; femora and under-side of margins smooth, 

 tibiae and tarsi fringed with short yellowish hair, prosternum 

 carinate and produced backward. Dimensions, 16 x 10 mm. 



I/nb. — Brunswick and Patterson Rivers, New South Wales. 



Two specimens, the sexes, are before me, the male taken 

 by the author at Brunswick Heads, the female by Mr. A. 

 Stephen in the Patterson River district. The former speci- 

 men has the costae more distinct, those on the female speci- 

 men becoming obscured about half-way, but they are cer- 

 tainly conspecific. This species belongs to Macleay's Sec- 

 tion i., and is nearest /'. pireus Kirby, from which it differs 

 considerably in (1) smaller size ; (2) subparallel form, with 

 margins scarcely widened in the centre ; (3) more approxi- 

 mate eyes ; (4) much more closely set punctures of elytral 

 series, and more regularly raised costae. Fro-m /'. Pnscoei 

 Macl., it differs more markedly in the larger punctures and 

 evident costae. Like many others of the genus, fresh speci- 

 mens are covered with a pruinose bloom. Types in the 

 author's Coll. 



Pterohel.eus sternalis, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, subparallel, black, very nitid, antennae and 

 tarsi red. 



Head coarsely punctured, slightly rugose at base, epistoma 

 straight and depressed in front, rounded and a little raised 

 at sides, not separated from forehead by a defined groove : 

 antennae long (extending to base of prothorax when at rest), 

 basal joints slender, four apical joints much wider than pre- 

 ceding and rounded; apical joint elongate-ovoid. Profhnni.r 

 more than twice as wide as long, widest at base, width at 

 apex about equal to length, sides arcuately converging from 

 base to apex, anterior angles emarginate and rounded, pos- 

 terior angles acute and deflexed, margins rather flat and 



