322 AUSTRALIAN coleoptera: notes and new species, 



Head densely and finely punctate, eyes large and prominent; antennae with 

 joints 3-8 elongate linear, successively shorter and wider, 9-10 triangularly wid- 

 ened, 11 as long as 10, acuminate. 



Prothonix longer than wide, truncate at base and apex, sides nearly straight, 

 a little naiTowed in front, hind angles rectangular; whole disc fine and con- 

 fluently punctate. 



Elytra navicular, wider than prothorax at base, striate-punctate ; the seriate 

 punctures comparatively large, close and regular, the intervals sub-convex — with 

 a line of sparse punctures on each — with an occasional extra puncture: sternal 

 area eloselj', the episterna very densely, punctate; abdomen sparsely so. Post- 

 tibiae enlarged exteriorly into a wide triangidar lobe, inner surface hoUowed. 

 Dimensions : 7 x 2 mm. 



Hah. — Cairns, Queensland. 



A single male example, from a forgotten source, was amongst my series of 

 C. tnastersi Macl. from which it is clearly distinguished by (1) colour, (2) longer 

 and finer antennal joints, (3) more densely punctured pronotum, (4) glabrous 

 surface and (5) tibial sex character. Type in Coll. Carter. 



HOMOTEYSIS AEREA, 11. Sp. 



Elongate, obovate, whole body nitid, coppery bronze, glabrous, antennae and 

 tarsi red. 



Head finely, not densely, punctate; eyes very large, bordered within by a 

 sulcus, separated by a space less than (in c?), or ecjual to (in ?) the width of 

 one eye; antennae linear, each joint lightly tiiickened at apex, joints 3-11 suc- 

 cessively shorter, 11 lanceolate. 



Prothorax subquadrate in c?, more widened in ?, apes truncate (or feebly 

 advanced in middle), front angles rounded, base truncate, posterior angles rect- 

 angular, sides in 6 nearly parallel, in ? clearly rounded; disc with light sparse, 

 shallow punctures, larger at base, obsolescent towards apex, a lunate transverse 

 depression near base, a smaller transverse depression near apex (sometimes in- 

 dicated only by two foveae) and (in general) two small central foveac. 



Scutellum semicircular, smooth. 



Elytra considerably wider than ijrothorax at base, shoulders rather scjuare, 

 sides gradually widening to near apex; striate-punctate, each elytron with 9 

 striae, besides a short scutellary stria; the punctures round, deeiJ and fairly 

 uniform, the series irregularly interrupted by a raised coiuiectiou between the 

 intervals, the latter imjjunclate and nearly Hat, except at sides. Meso- and 

 meta.sternum with a few coarse punctures; abdomen striolat*; fore-tibiae of J 

 dentate in the middle, within ; the middle and hind-tibiae lightly curved ; in ? all 

 tibiae unarmed and straight. Dimensions : 15-16 x 5-6 mm. 



Hah. — Port Mac(|uarie (Dr. E. W. Fergnison) and Eungai (T. G. Sloane), 

 New South Wales. 



Five specimens examined (3 d, 2 ?). It is readily distingiiisluMl from the 

 Test of group i. in my tabulation (Pi-oc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1915, p. 79) by its 

 brilliant bronze, glabrous surface and the tibial tooth in the male. Types in Coll. 

 Carter. 



HOMOTRYSIS AENESCBNS, n. Sp. 



Elongate obovate, browiiisli bronze, snbnitid, tarsi (also tiliiae in male only) 

 reddish. 



