210 REVISION OK PTEROHEL.EUS (contd.) AND SARAGUS, ETC., 



^. Differs only in the femora, (especially the anterior) 

 being much less bent. /Jin/msio/is, 16-17 x 7 mm. 



Hab. — Gynipie, Queensland (Mr. R. Illidge). 



Two specimens, one of each sex, were kindly given to me 

 some time ago, by the well known Brisbane entomologist, 

 who captured them. The species differs markedly from the 

 common A. eheninus Pasc, in (1) wider, more stunted and 

 convex form ; (2) the more evident punctures of the head, 

 prothorax, and elytral intervals (and consequent less nitid 

 colour) ; (3) the strong striation of the elytra ; (4) the much 

 greater curvature of the front tibiae of the male (very much 

 as in some species of Hypaulax or Meneristes). Types in the 

 author's Coll. 



Having lately taken a large number of A. eheninus Pasc, 

 in Northern New South Wales, I have been able to compare 

 the above with these. Any one of the four differences noted 

 above, would serve to separate the two species. 



Platyphanes punctipennis, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, glabrous, pronotum dull bronze-black; elytra 

 nitid, greenish bronze-black; antennae, oral organs, and tarsi 

 testaceous; underside black, modei'ately nitid. 



Head with labrum widely emarginate, epistoma flat, broad, 

 rounded in front, raised at sides, limited behind by a straight 

 suture with oblique depressions near epistomal angles; finely 

 punctate, forehead flat and less visibly punctured; antenna; with 

 third joint little longer than fourth, all joints successively wider 

 to apex, apical four joints much wider than preceding, thirteenth 

 oval. Prothorax, 3 x 55 mm., wider at base than at apex, 

 greatest width at middle; apex semicircularly emarginate, ante- 

 rior angles acute, produced to the eyes, sides gradually widening 

 and parabolically raised half-way, slightly sinuately narrcjwing 

 near the acute posterior angles; base strongly sinuate, with the 

 central lobe pi'oduced backward, extreme border thickened at 

 sides, narrow at apex, obsolete at base, foliate margins not distin- 

 guished from disc, without any lateral canal, closely, minutely 



