BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 509" 



Black, nitid (elytra not opaque in the female). Head not 

 offering any distinctive features. Prothorax rather broad and 

 flat (3 mm. x 4 mm.) ; truncate in front and behind ; the sides 

 rounded ; lateral margins wide at the posterior angles ; median 

 line distinct, not reaching either margin, ending behind in a 

 punctiform impression. Elytra very little wider than the pro- 

 thorax (7J mm. X 4J mm.), sub-convex ; the disc flatter in the 

 male than in the female; the sides sub-parallel, with the lateral 

 margins narrow and sinuate behind ; striae deep, thickly set with 

 rather strong punctures, especially towards the sides (in the 

 female shallower and less strongly punctate than in the male) ; 

 8 th thickly and closely punctate, thus obscuring the punctures 

 of the 9th interstice ; interstices convex, equal in fiont, but the 

 2nd, 4th, and 6th narrowed towards the apex ; 3rd with three 

 impressed punctures, 8th not wider than 9th. Segments of the 

 abdomen thickly and finely punctate towards the sides. Meso- 

 sternal and metasternal episterna punctate. 



A common species in many parts of N. S. Wales. I have it from 

 Mulwala, Goulburn, (at both places it is common) and Blayney. 

 A single specimen which I have from Glen Innes, seems a 

 lighter insect, with the prothorax more rounded, and the elytra 

 more convex and less strongly punctate ; it is possibly a distinct 

 species though 1 am unable to regard it as more than a variety. 



Sarticus moxarensis, sp.nov. 



Niger, nitidus, elytris obscure viridescentibus ; capite parvulo, 

 oculis vix prominulis ; prothorace Isevi, antice posticeque truncate, 

 marginato, canaliculato, ad angulos posticos utrinque impress©, 

 lateribus parum rotundatis; elytris ovalibus, subconvexis punc- 

 tulato-striatis, interstitiis vix convexis 3° punctis tribus extus 

 notato j abdominis segmentis ad latera subtilissime punctulatis. 



Long. 12-13; lat. 4-5 mm. 



Black, nitid, the elytra having a greenish tinge (in the female 

 the elytra are more opaque than in the male). Head smooth, not 



