248 NOTES ON SOME AUSTKALIAX TEXEBKIOXIDAI:: 



Seirotrana itixoR, n.sp. 



Ovate, bronze, apical joints of antennae opacjue biuwu. Head ratlier coarsely 

 rugose punctate, depressed on each side within the epistoma; antennal joints short, 

 stout and sub-triaiij:ular, 3rd about 11 times longer than 4th, 11th ovate, and much 

 larger than preceding. Prothora.r '_' x il mm., transverse and rather flat, arcuate- 

 emarginate at apex, anterior angles acute, widest at middle, sides well rounded, 

 sinuate behind, posterior angles rectangular, not dentate, base feebly sinuate 

 (slightly advanced in middle) apical and lateral border narrow, the latter with 

 slight tendency to crenulation; disc densely and finely rugose-punctate, medial 

 Ime indicated by depression near base. Scutellum widely oval and punctate. 

 Elytra considerably wider than protliorax at base and nearly thrice as longj ovate 

 and moderately convex; striate-jiunctate, the striae containing row^ of close regular 

 punctures; intervals microscopically punctate, the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th with shiny, 

 raised, elongate citenulations, the other intervals on apical half with minute round 

 nodules; sutural intervals' flat; epipleurae and flanks of presternum coarsely punc- 

 tate, apical segment of abdomen finely iiunctate. otlier segments strigose. dimen- 

 sions: 9 — 10 X 4 — 41 mm. 



Ha!^.—Bunya Mountains, S. Queensland; \.\k. A: Tenterfleld, N.S.W. (11 X 

 4i mm.) (H. J. Carter.) 



Three specimens taken near the foot of! Mount Mowbullan ( F>uuya ^lountainsl 

 show the smallest .species of the genus, structurally nearest to .s'. proiiina Pa.sc. and 

 >S'. i^icina Cart., but with nuicli finer elytral seriate ]iunctures and more elongate 

 and less strongly raised nodules. In Var. A. the lateral crenulation of prothorax 

 is a little more, and tlie hind sinuation a little less nuirked than in the examples 

 from Bunya Mts., but it is, I consider, conspecific with fliem. 



Types in Coll. Carter. 



EC'TYCHE SEMI-BULLATA^ U.SJ). 



Oblong-oval, subnitid black, legs piceous, antennae and tarsi castaneous, upper 

 surface thinly clad with long upright black hair. Head and pronotum finely and 

 densely rugose-punctate, epistomal suture arcuate, antennae submoniliform, 3rd 

 joint scarcely longer than 4th, successively increasing in size from the 6th onv.-ards, 

 9th and 10th sub-spherical, 11th oval. Prothorax convex, transverse, subtruni ate at 

 apex, sides widely and evenly rounded, anterior angles obsolete, posterior sharplv 

 rectangular, preceded by an abrupt sinuation on sides and followed by a sub-ol)solete 

 sinuation at base. Eli/tra oval, humeri S{iuarely rounded, at shoulders about as wide 

 as prothorax at widest ; apex bluntly rounded ; striate-punctate ; the round, closely- 

 packed punctures placed in fine striae; the 3rd, 5th, and 7th intervals each with 

 about 6 large tubercles and a few much smaller tul)ercles on tlie sutui'al interval. 

 Epipleurae coarsely and chisely, iibdouu'ii siiarsely iiiuictnte, glabnms. Ihmeu- 

 sions: 4.5 — 5 X 2 mm. 



JTob.— Geraldton, Western Australia (W. D. Dodd). 



Two specimens sent from the South Australian Museum slinw a sijecies easily 

 differentiated by its sculpture from its allies. The oidy ntlur species having 

 tuberculate elytra is E. tuhereulipetniis Bates, in which small tulicrcies are (venlv 

 placed on all the intervals, besides many other differences. 1 have s))ecnnens if 

 the latter taken by Mr. H. W. Brown at Lake Austin. AV . .\ . I have not l)ee;i 

 able to make out any sexual distinction. 



T v II e s in the South Australian Museum. 



