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large ; eyes not very prominent ; clypeus lightly impressed on each 

 side ; the post-clypeal suture not distinct. Prothorax subquadrate 

 (3mmx3Jmm.), sides rounded; the lateral margins narrow in 

 front, wider and upturned at the posterior angles ; median line 

 light, short, not reaching either margin, ending behind in a punc- 

 tiform impression. Elytra oval (7 mm. x 4 J mm.), rather convex, 

 striate ; the striae thickly and finely punctate, extending in full 

 depth to base and apex ; the interstices equal, slightly convex in 

 the male, but not so in the female, 3rd with three punctures 

 placed almost in the 3rd stria, the punctures of the 9th placed 

 along the 8th stria — more widely in front, closer, yet not con- 

 fluent behind ; abbreviated stria short and slightly oblique ; the 

 sides somewhat abrupt, with the lateral margins rather wide, 

 narrowly reflexed, and rounded off at the shoulders to the basal 

 border. Segments of the abdomen smooth, with very fi.ne punc- 

 tures — visible under a lens — towards the sides. Prosternum 

 without a margin. JVletasternal episterna strongly punctate. 



This species has probably a wide distribution in the Australian 

 Alps. There are specimens in the Australian Museum from 

 Bombala and the Monaro district of N.S.W. The specimens on 

 which the description above is founded are a pair in my collection 

 from Porpunkah, near Mount Buffalo, Victoria. 



Sarticus cycloderus. 



Feronia {Sterojms) cyclodera, Chaud., Bull. Mosc. 1865, iii. 

 p. 100 ; Feronia (^Stero2)us) Waterhousei, Casteln., Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Victoria, VIII. p. 224 ; Feronia (^Steropus) Mastersi, 

 Casteln., I.e. ; Feronia (Stei^opus) Blagravi, Casteln., I.e. 



Size small. Black, nitid, the elytra and under parts having a 

 piceous tinge. Head small, lightly impressed on each side in 

 front. Prothorax rather convex (2^ mm. x 3 mm.), rounded on 

 the sides, a little narrowed behind, the margins wide behind ; 

 median line light, not terminating towards the base in the usual 

 foveolet, but almost reaching the margin. Elytra oval (6 ram. x 



