BY H. J. CARTER. 313 



Prothorax arcuate-emarginate at apex, bisinuate at base, sides converging 

 from base to apex, anterior angles w«ll produced but rounded, posterior acute 

 and falcate; foliate maigins wide and concave, extreme border narrow and re- 

 flexed ; disc smooth, a little depressed before the scutellum, a faint medial chan- 

 nel perceptible. 



Scutellum semi-circular, smooth. 



Elijlra of same width as prothorax at base, wide, oval and rather flat; 

 foliate margins as wide as those of prothorax in basal regions, narrowed, but 

 wider than usual, at apex; a little concave in middle, flattened fore and aL't; 

 disc aeriate-punctate, each elytron with 9 longitudinal series of punctures, be- 

 sides a short scutellary row; of these the 9th — at junction with foliation — con- 

 sists of large, deep pits; the 8th is a single row of small shallow punctures, the 

 other series consist of irregular lines of clustered punctures — generally fuier 

 than those in 8th — in the 1st and 2nd row each forming geminate branches on 

 basal half; all series more or less obsolescent at apex; the intervals lightly con- 

 vex and smooth — flat towards apex — the first three (including the sutural) more 

 evidently raised than the rest; prosternum with some fine pustules, abdomen 

 finely striolate, underside otherwise impunctate and glabrous; basal joint of 

 hind tarsi as long as the rest combined. Dimensions : 17 x 9J mm. 



Uab.— Flat Rock, New South Wales. 



A single specimen, sex uncertain, was given me some time ago and was 

 sent to the British Museum for comparison with a few species of which I wa-s 

 in doubt and returned by Mr. Blair with the note "have not." In my table 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1911, p. 197) the species would stand next to 

 safeties Blackb., from which it is distinguished by its flatter form and nitid sur- 

 face, together with the peculiar elytral sculpture noted above. Type in Coll. 

 Carter. 



Mr. H. W. Brown has lately taken in the Northern Territory a tine series 

 of Helaeus hopei Breme and H. crenatipennis Cart. The former I lately identi- 

 fied, for the first time, in a single specimen in the Melbourne Museum. The 

 type probably came from Port Essington. 



Saraous ellipsoides, n. sp. 



Widely oval, convex, nitid black, tarsi red. 



Head finely, closely punctate, clypeal margin reflexed, evenly rounded in 

 front, widely produced at sides before the eyes. 



Prothorax strongly transverse, emarginate at apex, anterior angles very 

 ■widely rounded, sides rapidly widening to base, foliate margins concave, reflexed 

 at border, posterior angles acute, base widely bisinuate, disc microscopically 

 punctate, with a smooth, feebly impressed medial line and two shallow basal 

 foveae. 



Scutellum transversely oval. 



Elytra as wide as prothorax at base, very convex and oval, foliate margins 

 wide at base, gradually narrowing to apical third, thence strongly narrowed to 

 apex, finely seriate-punctate, the series broken up into confused punctures on 

 sides and near the scutellum (here appearing to overflow on to the intervals) ; 

 all intervals with a few irregular punctures, each eljrtron with about five very 

 slightly raised smooth intervals, these wider than the rest; metasternum pustu- 

 lose at sides; abdomen finely striolate, apical segment minutely punctate; tibiae 



