198 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Lacordaire are the following : the antennae are considerably more 

 than " hardly " villose beneath, and their 3rd joint is slightly 

 longer than their 5th. On the whole it appears to me better to 

 call this insect " Porithea f than to found a new genus for it. 



PORITHEA PLAGIATA, Sp.nov. 



i\Todice elongata ; sat opaca ; fusca, antennis (nonnullorum 

 articulorum apice excepto) femorum basi tibiis (apice excepto) 

 tarsis (parte mediana excepta) elytrorumque maculis singulis 

 lateralibus antemedianis magnis et fascia communi undulata 

 anteapicali sat lata testaceis, capite metasterno et abdominis 

 parte mediana rufescentibus ; antennis quam corpus vix 

 longioribus, articulo 3° quam 4"^ pauUo longiori, hoc quam 

 5^^ vix longiori ; capite prothoraceque subtilissime rugulosis 

 (vel potius coriaceis) ; hoc quam latiori vix longiori, lineis 3 

 elevatis brevibus et tuberculis parvis 2 ornato, lateribus 

 postice et antice sat parallelis in parte mediana sat rotun- 

 datis ; elytris sat crebre sat subtiliter ruguloso-punctulatis^ 

 ad apicem rotundato-truncatis. [Long. 5, lat. li lines. 



The inequalities on the prothorax consist of a short longitudinal 

 elevated line on the middle of the disc and another (similar, ijut 

 slightly more elevated) placed obliquely on either side of it slightly 

 in front of the middle, and two small discoidal tubercles near the 

 base. 



N. S. Wales ; Tweed River district. 



Aposites GRACILIS, sp.nov. 

 Fuscus, pube tenui grisea vestitas ; prothorace quam latiori 

 sublongiori, transversim rugato, antice sat angustato, lateri- 

 bus a margine antico retrorsum divergentibus (in medio su))- 

 angulatis vel potius subtuberculatim dilatatis, hinc retrorsum 

 fere parallelis nihilominus ad basin summam divergentibus) ; 

 elytris externe sat emarginatis, ad apicem angustatis, costis 

 3 discoidalibus sat obsoletis instructis ; antennis (maris) 



