194 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



lose, spatio mediano nitido lanceolato alteioque utriuque 



rotuodato subapicali oriiato, utrinque spina lateral! armato ; 



elytiis a basi paullo ultra medium crasse hinc ad apicem sat 



subtiliter punctulatis, ad apicem singnlatim sat fortiter 2- 



spinosis, parte posteriori nitida. [Long. 6-8, lat. 1^-2 lines. 



Not unlike P. fallax, Pasc, in general appearance, but a little 



less robust and with more slender legs and antennse, the 3rd and 



4th joints of the latter being all but devoid of a longitudinal 



sulcus. The sculpture of the prothorax and elytra and the 



markings of the latter are as in P.fallax, except in the absence 



of the apical spot on the elytra, which are entirely black from 



immediately behind the middle to the apex. Also resembles 



Coptocercus unifasciatus, Hope, which, however, has no lateral 



.^spines on its prothorax. 



S. Australia; widely distributed, but apparently not common. 



Tryphocharia solida, sp nov. 

 Lata ; subdepressa ; ferrnginea, prothorace elytrisque rufo- 

 aurantiacis, his abdomineque nigro-notatis; parum imbescens; 

 antennis (feminae) quam corpus multo brevioribus, articiilo 

 4° quam P^ hand longiori quam 3"^ sat breviori, articulis 3-7 

 spinis binis validis armatis ; prothorace crassissime ruauloso 

 5-tuberculato, utrinque spina laterali armato; elytris crassis- 

 sime valde rugulose punctulatis (puncturis ad apicem summum 

 manifesto minus crassis minus rugulosis), ad apicem spinis 

 binis robustis elongatis armatis; metasterno sat crebre minus 

 fortiter, abdomine sparsissime sat fortiter punctulatis. 



[Long. 13, lat. 4i lines. 

 Not much like any of the previously described species of 

 Tryphocharia. Compared with T. hamaia, Newm., this is a very 

 much wider and more depressed species, with its prothorax much 

 more coarsely rugulose and having lateral spines not bent at the 

 apex, its elytra much more coarsely rugulose (the rugulosity 

 being much less enfeebled posteriorly) and differently marked, its 

 antennae (in the female) much shorter and with the 3rd joint 



