1274 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



perhaps deserves to be a named one, as it seems to differ from the 

 type in having the tibiae and tarsi (not black, but) fuscous-brown, 

 the anterior two pairs being at the base scarcely darker than the 

 femora. It is of course possible that if the original type from 

 Sumatra could be referred to other differences might be found. 



Neorupilia stirlingi, sp.nov. 



Modice convexa ; subnitida ; elytrorum ad apicem fortiter 

 dilatata ; nigro-viridis, subtus obscurior, capite (hujus parte 

 posteriori, et antennarum articulis ultimis ferme 7, picescentibus 

 exceptis) prothorace, pedibusque, testaceis ; capite (hoc inter oculos 

 longitudinaliter profunde breviter sulcato) et prothorace subtilis- 

 sime sat crebre (nihilominus leviter vix perspicue), elytris confuse 

 sat subtiliter sat crebre subrugulose, punctulatis ; corpore subtus 

 minus crebre strigoso-punctulato ; metasterno postice et segmento 

 ventrali penultimo (i alterutrius sexus soli) in medio impressis ; 

 segmentis dorsalibus ultimis 3 ("? alterutrius sexus soli) ab elytris 

 hand tectis. [Long. 11, lat. | line, 



It is probable that I have before me only one sex of this species; 

 unfortunately the half dozen examples have been fastened on cards 

 with some kind of mucilage of so unyielding a character and so 

 plentifully used that they are not easily cleaned for examination, 

 and the one I have cleaned has suffered much damage in the 

 process, — but I think nothing would be gained by similar treatment 

 of the rest as it is probable that the sexes differ in the length of 

 the elytra and in the antennae, and in these respects I find no 

 difference in the examples before me, which are probably males. 

 The prothorax is by measurement nearly as long as wide (to a 

 casual glance it appears even longer) and is scarcely narrowed in 

 front ; its sides are gently rounded. The elytra are twice as wide 

 at the apex as at the base. The antennae are moderately stout 

 and reach back nearly to the apex of the elytra, their basal joint 

 being elongate (reaching when extended laterally slightly beyond 

 the outline of the eye) and nearly equal to the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 together ; the 3rd is twice as long as the 2nd. The metasternum 



