590 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



a shallow depression. Scutellura depressed, with three irregular 

 rows of punctures. Elytra very minutely and shallowly jDunctate, 

 each with three irregular rows of stronger punctures, the 

 strongest touching the suture, the middle on the disk, and the 

 third (which perhaps should be regarded as two), at the sides, 

 base also irregularly punctate ; abdomen beneath minutely 

 punctate. Anterior coxa?, sides of the femora, and the tibiae 

 punctate. Length, 10-13, width l|-2mm. 



Ha b . — Tarn worth . 



Obtained during a flood in the Peel River. In two of my 

 specimens there is a coppery tinge along the suture and rows of 

 punctures on the elytra. 



P A R N I D /E. 



Elmis V-fasciatus, n.sp. 



Elongate, subdepressed, subshining. Black; antennte, palpi, 

 tarsi, trochantins, coxte and undersurface (except at sides) 

 testaceous-red; sides tinged with piceous; femora dai'k reddish- 

 brown, tibife paler; prothorax narrowly margined at apex with 

 red, the extreme sides brownish; scutellum dai-k red; elytra 

 narrowly margined with red; with a number of elongate, pale- 

 yellow markings, forming an irregular V, each elytron having five 

 to seven, the 3rd from the suture being the longest, sometimes 

 two or three are united at the shoulders; towards the apex also 

 there is a somewhat triangular mark, very indistinctly connected 

 with the 3rd and 4th stripes. Covered all over with extremely 

 short pubescence. Head densely and minutely punctate; pro- 

 thorax less densely and distinctly; elytra extremely minutely and 

 obsoletely punctate, with striai distinct and strongly punctured at 

 base, becoming feebler and less strongly punctured towards apex; 

 middle of the pro-, meso-, and mctasternum and basal abdominal 

 segment strongly punctured, the sides minutely punctate. 



Head longer than wide; antennae slender, slightly passing pro- 

 thorax. Prothorax longer than wide, much narrower in front 

 than behind, base shallowly bisinuate; the disk with two trans- 

 verse impressions, the anterior deep, commencing at the sides in 



