BY THOMAS (i. SLOANE. 431 



Piceous black ; legs, antennae and mouth-parts reddish. Head 

 of moderate size ; front strongly impressed on each side ; impres- 

 sions short, strongly divergent behind ; orbit weakly developed 

 behind eyes, abruptly constricted posteriorly ; eyes small. Labrum 

 truncate. Prothorax subquadrate (1-75 x 2-1 mm.), widest just 

 l>ehind anterior marginal puncture, wider across base than apex ; 

 sides rounded, more shortly and decidedly narrowed anteriorly 

 than posteriorly, lightly subsinuate before the base ; anterior 

 margin emarginate ; base truncate (lightly emarginate across 

 peduncle) ; anterior angles widely obtuse ; basal angles rectangular ; 

 border narrow, reflexed on sides, extending along lateral third of 

 anterior margin on each side, ending abruptly at basal angle ; 

 median line lightly impressed, not reaching either margin ; a 

 well marked straight impression extending forward from base 

 about- one-third the length of prothorax on each side, leather 

 nearer median line than margin ; space between this impression 

 and margin not convex and with a short obsolete impression in 

 middle ; posterior setigerous marginal puncture beside the margin 

 near each basal angle. Elytra ovate, short, a little wider than 

 prothorax (3-5 x 2*5 mm.), convex, strongly declivous to apex, 

 sinuate on each side of apical curve ; striae strongly impressed ; 

 striole at base of second interstice short, linear ; interstices not 

 convex on disc, seventh convex for whole length, fifth and sixth 

 convex towards posterior extremity, fifth and seventh enclosing 

 sixth at apex ; third 3-punctate, the punctures strongly 

 impressed, anterior on basal third in course of third stria, two 

 posterior ones along course of second stria ; ninth interstice 

 wider at apex, strongly punctate along course of eighth stria, 

 the punctures interrupted in middle ; basal border ending in a short 

 dentiform projection at humeral angles ; lateral border strongly 

 reflexed. Prosternum bordered on base. Metasternal episterna 

 short. Posterior femora dilatate l)ehind trochanters. 



Length 6-5, breadth 2-5 mm. 



//ab. — Bulli, N.S.W. (A single specimen occurred to me 7th 

 November, 1889.) 



