80 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



the first recognisable description perfectly free from blame even 

 though the name he used have to become a synonym through the 

 subsequent investigation of the specimen on which some unin- 

 telligible description was founded. 



Lehia irrita, Newm., is an example in point. De Chaudoir 

 seems to think it likely to be a Philophloeus. I incline to believe 

 that it is an Agonocheila, and it is quite possible that it may be 

 the species described below. But it could not be identified except 

 by inspecting the original type (which if still existent is, I suppose 

 in the British Museum), and therefore I disregai'd it. 



Agonocheila fenestrata, sp.nov. 



Sat depressus ; pubescens ; f usco-ferrugineus vel obscure rufo- 

 testaceus, exemplortim plurimorum capite abdominis lateribus 

 apiceque et elytris obscurioribus (his macula brevi anguste 

 oblonga longitudinali discoidali antice posita, et exemplis 

 nonnullis altera communi transversa subobsoleta pone medium 

 posita, ornatis) ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo latiori, 

 antice leviter emarginato, postice lobato, quam caput parum 

 latiori, ad latera utrinque 2-setoso, latitudine majori longe 

 ante medium posita, lateribus paullo pone angulos anticos 

 angulatis hinc ad basin letter fere recte convergentibus, 

 angulis posticis rectis, basi quam margo anticus paiillo latiori; 

 elytris modice (quam A. curtulce, Er., paullo minus fortiter) 

 punctulatis, obsolete striatis, interstitiis vix planis. 



[Long. l|-2, lat. %-t line. 

 This species seems very easily recognisable by its diminutive size 

 and its brown elytra bearing a short line-like testaceous mark on 

 the disc a little in front of the middle ; very rarely this mark is a 

 little dilated laterally so as to be not much longer than wide, and 

 almost equally rarely there is a short transverse testaceous mark 

 crossing the suture a little behind the middle ; in some examples 

 the external margins of the elytra are narrowly (and more or less 

 faintly) pallid ; I have not seen an example in which the front 

 pallid mark on the elytra is wanting except one probably immature, 



