464 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



further than the length of the basal joint of the antennae. This 

 clypeus is not separated by any conspicuous suture from the rest 

 of the head. The labrum is scarcely shorter than the clypeus. 

 From the antennae forward the head is somewhat declivous, — so 

 that (the entire head being placed vertically) the front outline of 

 the same as viewed from the side seems to bend back slightly 

 towards the prosternum, somewhat after the manner of Rhinaria 

 in the Curcidionidca. The mode of insertion of the antennae is a 

 little suggestive of Haltica, but the hind femora are not at all 

 stouter than the intermediate ones, nor are channelled beneath for 

 the reception of their tibiae. There is an evident interval between 

 the front of the eye and the level of the insertion of the antennae 

 which moreover is distinctly nearer to the middle longitudinal 

 line of the head than is the inner margin of the eye, but this is 

 accompanied by a narrowing of the head itself. 



In Dr. Chapuis' tabulation of groups of Eumolpidm this genus 

 would fall in the Iphimeites, and I think it is perhaps more allied 

 to Terillus than to any other previously described genus. 



Rhinobolus nitidus, sp.nov. 



Nitidus ; niger ; capite viridi-micante, prothorace elytrisque 

 angusteviridi-marginatis; labro, mandibulis, antennis (his articulo 

 ultimo apice nigro), pedibusque, testaceis ; capite la3vigato (spatio 

 inter oculos crebrius fortius punctulato excepto) ; prothoracis disco 

 sparsim subtilius lateribus fortius paullo crebrius, elytris profunde 

 sparsius sublineatim, punctulatis. [Long. I5, lat. \ lines. 



Of the antennae joint 1 is moderately long and stout, — 2 half as 

 long and equally stout, — 3-6 slender and moderately long (5 the 

 longest of them), — 7-11 feebly incrassated (7 and 11 the longest 

 of them, each about as long as the basal joint). The pro thorax 

 is strongly transverse with very strongly rounded sides ; it is but 

 little narrower in front than at the base. The aws are moder- 

 ately stout, their basal piece feebly dentate. 



Yorke's Peninsula ; on foliage of Eucalyptus 



