BY II. J. CARTER. 167 



A. abbreviatum Boisd. (Plate v., figs. 13, 14). 

 A. impressum Blanch. 



Wide, rather fiat, moderately nitid bronze, tarsi reddish. 



Iliad distinctly, not closely, punctate, with a transverse frontal 

 impression: antennae having joint 3 shorter than 4-5 combined, 

 4-7 ovate, 8 10 increasingly widened, 11 pear-shaped, 1^ times 

 longer than 10. Prothorax moderately convex, widest behind 

 middle, base subtruncate, apex arcuate-emarginate, front angles 

 rounded, sides widely and rather evenly rounded, lightly (£) or 

 not (2) sinuate behind; posterior angles obtuse; disc lightly (or 

 not) channelled in middle, with a few irregular fovea (one more 

 regularly placed near sides), a few large setiferous punctures 

 (these more thickly set on explanate margins), and a fine, close 

 system of punctures throughout. Elytra wider than prothorax 

 at base, widely ovate and depressed, finely striate-punctate (stria* 

 often more or less obliterated), intervals flat, the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 

 and 8th (on sides) wider than the rest, and containing irregular 

 series of shallow, foveate impressions; these sometimes single, 

 sometimes forming or containing groups of smaller punctures, 

 the 1st (sutural) generally smooth (sometimes with one or two 

 small setse), 3rd and 5th with setiferous punctures, from which 

 spring long, upright, white hairs; epipleurse strongly punctate, 

 abdomen and sternal regions rather smooth, the latter with 

 sparse set* sending out white hairs; intercoxal process rather 

 squarely rounded. Dimensions : 9-12x4|-6 mm. 



Hob. — Hobart, Strahan, Waratah, Great Lake District, Mole 

 Creek, Launceston, etc. 



Var. A. demtatum, n.var. (Plate v., fig. 15). — With sides of 

 prothorax clearly sinuate behind, the posterior angle acutely 

 dentate and pointing outwards, the anterior angles obtusely 

 pointed. Dimensions: 12x5 mm. in £; 12x6 mm. in £. 



//„/,._Tyenna (C. E. Cole). 



Two specimens given me by Mr. Cole from a series of similar 

 form taken by him. 



Var. B. lomondense, n.var. — The pronotum with many large, 

 setiferous punctures, and proportionately more pilose: these seta? 



