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punctate (punctures only visible under a lens), the medial line 

 faintly indi(^ated by the absence of these punctures, and by a 

 slight depression near base, two large transverse depressions also 

 near base, one on each side of medial line. ScuteUum large, 

 smooth and scutiform. Elytra wider than prothorax at base, 

 and nearl}' four times as long, convex, slioulders rounrled, sides 

 subparallel anteriorly but slighth- widening behind mifldle, and 

 sharply rounded at apex; extreme border narrowly horizontal 

 (only visible from above behind the shoulders); disc irregularly 

 dotted with large punctures, without seriate arrangement, punc- 

 tures becoming obsolete at the humeral swelling and at apex. 

 Prosternum finely striolate, and carinate in middle, antei'ior and 

 middle cox« with raised boi'ders, intermediate intercoxal process 

 wide and rounded, posterior process widely triangular, abdomen 

 finely, closely punctate and coarsely strigose; til)ice slender, poste- 

 rior tarsi with basal and claw-joints subequal, intermediate joints 

 very short. Dimensio7is, 15-18 mm. long, 6-5-8 mm. wide. 



//«6. — Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea), Blue Mountains, and lUa- 

 warra districts, New South Wales. 



Three specimens are under examination, easily distinguished 

 from other described species by the sculpture of the elytra. 



Otrintus cylindricus, n.sp. 



Elongate, parallel, cylindric, nitid violet-bronze; palpi and 

 apical joints of antenme piceousand opaque, underside nitid black. 



Head : labrum very prominent, epistoma arcuate and convex, 

 deeply impressed near sides, limiting suture clearly defined and 

 straight, with sides forming a rectangle enclosing forehea,d; eyes 

 very narrow, forehead foveate, the whole surface \'ery minutely, 

 not (leiisclv iHir deeply punctate; antennae stout, extending to 

 base of prothorax, third joint shorter than fourth and fifth com- 

 bined, 4-10 subequal and oval, eleventh ovate-acuminate. Pro- 

 thorax 4x35 nmi., slightly wider near apex than at base, anterior 

 angles I'ounded l)ut acute, scarcely produced or prominent, ajjex 

 arcuate, sides nearly straight, sometimes faintly sinuate behind 

 the middle, hind angles obtuse, rounded, not at all projecting, 

 base not coarctate, margins not foliaceous, extreme border nar- 



