314 AUSTRALIAN CX3LEOPTERA : NOTES AND NEW SPECIES, 



armed with two short spines at apex, the front tibiae with a row of fine spines 

 on outside edge. Duneiiaions : 12 x 8-9 mm. 



Hah. — Cue (H. W. Brown) and Kalgoorlie (from Air. C. French), Western 

 Australia. 



Two examples have long been undesoril)eil in my collection, as possibly 

 being S. macleayi Blkb., l)ut a specimen of this from Port Lincoln sent by Black- 

 burn himself to Dr. Sharp has been sent from the British Museum and is evi- 

 dently that mueh-named Saragws brunnipes Bois. S. elUpsoides in size and 

 form is intermediate between brunnipes and spheroides mihi, being wider and 

 more convex than the former, and narrower than the latter, the sculpture finer 

 than on eitber, especially on pronotum which is nearly smooth. Type in Coll. 

 Carter. 



Nyctozoilus puncto-costatus, n. sp. 



Elongate-ovate convex, opaque black, antennae piceous, leg's and tarsi clothed 

 with golden hair. 



Head coarsely, irregularly j)unctate; clothed with short golden bristles; 

 clypeus arcuately hollowed in front, labrum strongly produced, ciliate and punc- 

 tate; antennae with 4 apical joints transverse and paler than the rest, 3rd joint 

 longer than 4th-5th combined. 



Prothorax arcuate-emarginate at apex, truncate at l)ase, anterior angles acutely 

 produced; sides widely rounded, sinuate behind; widest behind middle, posterior 

 angles acute; disc very densely punctate, lightly depressed in middle with large 

 shallow depression on each side; margins sub-foliate — separated from disc by 

 light depression — extreme border rather thick on sides, less so at base and apex. 



Scutellum transversely triangular, coarsely punctate. 



Elytra wider than prothorax at base, each with four nitid and punctate 

 straight costae, more or less evenly spaced, and uniformly raised, tlie suture also 

 nitid and punctate, but less raised than costae; interspaces with opaque derm, 

 densely pitted with shallow punctures; undereide clothed with short golden hairs, 

 the abdominal sculjiture somewhat like that of the elytral intervals. Dimeiifiions: 

 15 X 7 (vix) mm. 



Hab. — Wyndham, North West Australia. (W. Crawshaw). 



Mr. J. Clark has generously given me an example of the above — sex doubt- 

 ful — that is (juite unlike any <lescribed species. In my table (Ann. Q'land Mus., 

 1911, p. 10) it would come nearest to ;V. hardccistlei and N. vermiculalus mihi, 

 but clearly separated from both by narrower form, and the 8-costnte elytra, inter 

 mtdta alia. Type in Coll. (Uirter. 



Nyctozoilus dknticoi.IjIs, n. sp. 



Widely obovate, oi)ai|ue black aliove, nitid bencatli, ai)ical joints of antennae 

 reddish. 



Head and pronotum with an impuuctate felt-like surface, epistoiua truncate 

 in front, widely rounded at sides, little raised at antennal" orbits, 3rd antennal 

 joint almost as long a.s the s\icceeding three; 4tli-7th longer than wide. 8th-lf)th 

 subspherical, lltli ovoid. 



Prothorax (5x7 mm.), apex widely emarginate, with acutely j)roduced den- 

 tate angles pointing forwards and upwards; base sub-truncate, nnuh wider than 

 apex, posterior angles moderately dentate, pointing obliquely outwards; sides 

 strongly widened near middle, sinuately narrowing each way, extreme border 



