412 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, 



widest towards the front (at anterior marginal puncture), rounded 

 on anterior half, narrowed behind, strongly declivous between 

 lateral basal impressions; a narrow flattened space near base 

 across peduncle ; anterior margin lightly emarginate ; base 

 almost truncate on each side, strongly emarginate across the 

 peduncle ; anterior angles rounded, hardly advanced ; basal angles 

 subrectangular, rounded at their summit ; border thick, reflexed 

 (more widely so near base), extending along base on each side to 

 peduncle ; marginal channel wide, shallow ; median line lightly 

 impressed ; a strong short deep impression on each side of the 

 base extending obliquely outward in front; a broad flattened 

 space between these impressions and the basal angles ; anterior 

 marginal puncture placed in marginal channel, posterior on edge 

 of lateral border a little before the basal angle. Elytra ovate, 

 not wider than prothorax (13-5 x 9 mm.), convex, lightly 

 declivous to peduncle and apex ; base rounded on each side 

 between humeral angle and peduncle ; apex evenly rounded ; 

 strife lightly impressed, eighth obsolete, a row of fine punctures 

 along its course ; interstices raised, third and seventh more 

 pi'ominent, third and fifth subcarinate, seventh carinate ; space 

 between eighth and margin shining ; border extending from 

 peduncle to apex, widely reflexed behind shoulders, more narrowly 

 so posteriorly, its' course not interrupted posteriorly by edge of 

 inflexed part of elytra. First ventral segment attaining 

 metasternum in a sharp point, three last smooth, a puncture on 

 each side of anus. Legs light : posterior trochanters unipunc- 

 tate, elliptic, obtuse at apex. 



Length 29, breadth 9 mm. 



9. Resembling the ^, but with the head larger (7 x 8.5 

 mm.); prothorax wider (6*25x9.75 mm.); elytra (15-5x10 

 mm.), a little less convex (both transversely and longitudinally), 

 less narrowed behind, more widely rounded at apex. First joint 

 of anterior tarsi about as long as two succeeding ones together. 



Length 30, breadth 10 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland (Cape York ?) ; ^ and 9 in my 

 collection. 



