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male is scarcely less elevated than in C. niger, though it is of quite 

 different shape. 



N. S. Wales ; bred by Mr. Froggatt from Eucalyptus robtcsla 

 at Botany Bay. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



At^nius deserti, sp.nov. 



Sat angustus ; minus parallelus ; nitidus ; niger, clypei lateribus 

 antennis pedibusque rufescentibus ; clypeo rotundato-emargi- 

 nato ; capite longitudinaliter sat crebre strigato-punctulato ; 

 prothorace sequali, dupliciter (subtiliter et subfortiter) nee 

 rugulose punctulato, puncturis in disco minus crebre vix 

 aequaliter (ad latera confertissime confluenter) dispositis ; 

 elytris sulcatis, sulcis in f undo anguste subtiliter catenulatis, 

 interstitiis modice convexis nee anguste carinatis, humeris 

 dentatis. [Long. 1|-, lat. 4 line (vix). 



Differs from A. australls, Har., chiefly in the following respects : 

 puncturation of the head finer and running much more evidently 

 in strigye, prothorax without any trace of a median sulcus, elytral 

 sulci traversed (not by rows of large punctures giving an uneven 

 crenulated appearance to the interstices, but) by tine catenulated 

 lines occupying the extreme bottom of the sulci and leaving the 

 interstices free from any appearance of crenulation, elytral inter- 

 stices (though decidedly and somewhat angularly convex) not 

 nearly so narrowly or sharply carinate. 

 Oodnadatta ; Central Australia. 



M^CHIDIUS CLYPEALIS, Sp.UOV. 



Minus elongatus ; supra sat opacus ; f usco-piceus ; capite antice 

 leviter emarginato, lateribus sat fortiter sinuatis; prothorace 

 fortiter transverso, antice minus angnstato, confertim rugulose 

 nee grosse punctulato, lateribus crenulatis leviter sat sequaliter 

 arcuatis, angulis anticis obtusis minus productis, posticis 

 subacutis vix retrorsum directis, basi fortiter lobata sicut 

 prothorax certo adspectu utiinque pone angulos posticos 

 profunde excisus videtur; elytris striatis, interstitiis puncturis 



