462 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



EuTTiolpides, with which tribe it agrees also in the form of the 

 anterior coxae and prosternal episterna. I am, however, unable 

 to assign it with confidence to any of Dr. Chapuis' groups of 

 Eumoljndes. By the tabulation of these groups in the Gen, Col. 

 X. p. 229, it would be assigned to the Ipliimeites^ but it does not 

 seem to resemble any of those genera satisfactorily. Its elytra 

 soldered together, and closely embracing the hind body (so that a 

 considerable portion of their lateral part is visible only from 

 beneath), its very short metasternum, and prosternal episterna 

 not or scarcely convex in front, are sufficient, taken together, to 

 distinguish it from all its allies. Its habits appear to resemble 

 those of Pachnephorus and Colaspidea, but I cannot find sufficient 

 reason to treat it as really allied to those genera. The name of 

 the genus is derived from the native Australian name of the 

 district in which I found the insect. 



Port Lincoln ; under atones. 



CUDNELLIA MYSTICA, Sp.nOV. 



-^nea; labro, palporuui antennarumque basi, capite subtus, 

 pedisbusque (his plus minus infuscatis), rufo-testaceis ; capite 

 crebre fortiter, prothorace duplo (subtiliter et minus subtiliter), 

 scutello vix perspicue, elytris profunde crasse sublineatim minus 

 crebre, punctulatis; his postice substriatis, interstitiis subcostatis ; 

 corpore subtus crebre fortiter punctulato. 



[Long. If, lat. 1 line (vix). 



The basal joint of the antennae is moderately large and stout; it 

 together with the 2nd joint (which is about half its size) is testa- 

 ceous ; joints 3-6 are of a pitchy colour, somewhat slender, not 

 difiering much inter se in length (joint 5 however slightly longest) 

 and about as long as joint 2 ; the remaining joints are nearly 

 black, 7-10 a little longer than 5 and somewhat dilated being of an 

 elongate triangular form, 11 of similar size but oval in shape. The 

 claws are thick and swollen in appearance with the basal piece 

 angulate beneath. The sides of the prothorax are very strongly 



