BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 475 



Form narrow, cylindric ; head large, convex, with a light 

 transverse impression behind, and deep frontal sulci diverging 

 strongly backwards ; maxillary palpi triangular, the penultimate 

 joint very short and thick ; labial palpi broadly securiform ; 

 antennae sub-moniliform, incrassate ; elytra with lateral margin 

 thick, convex, and very narrow behind first ventral segment ; the 

 border forming an upturned projection at the shoulders ; anterior 

 tibiae bidentate ; anterior femora short, dilatate, channelled on 

 lower side and with a short, deep sinuosity near the apex ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae with an acute short external tooth at apex. 



EUTOMA BIPUNCTATUM. 



Garenwin hipunctattcm, Macl., Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W., 1863, 

 i. p. 60; U. newmani, Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1868, 

 viii. p. 140; E. loddonense, Casteln., I.e. p. 142 ; E. punctulatum^ 

 MacL, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1887, ii. (2), p. 130.* 



I have already pnblished the opinion that Eutoma punctulaturriy 

 Macl., — E. newmani, Casteln. f ; and, having now obtained more 



* It is my belief that E. hipunctatum, Macl. , will be found to be identical 

 with E. tinctillatvm, Newm., though the evidence in my hands is insufficient 

 to warrant my publishing this as an undoubted fact. Sir William Macleay's 

 species^, siihrugulosum and E. suhstriatulum seem from description the same 

 species, and identical with the species de Castelnau regarded as E. tinctil- 

 latum. E. undidatum, Macl., (I have a specimen from Yass), must also, 

 1 think, be placed under E, tinctillatum ; also E. Iceve, Casteln., (I have a 

 specimen from Sydney). Slight differences in size and in the amount of the 

 elytra overspread with a blue tinge, cannot be regarded, in themselves, as 

 of sufficient importance to be of specific value, nor is the mere presence of 

 rows of obscure punctures on the elytra enough, in itself, to separate a 

 specimen specifically from others that may have smooth elytra ; as these 

 punctures may be pi-oduced on naturally smooth Carenides by leaving the 

 specimens in spirits of wine for a time, when fresh. In regard to E. 

 cjlaberrimum, Macl., I have a specimen from the Mudgee district, deter- 

 mined from comparison with the type in the Macleay Collection, which, 

 though apparently somewhat broader, I cannot separate from E. hipiinc- 

 tatv,m, Macl. ; — from description E. mastersi, Macl., should be the same as 

 my Mudgee specimen. 



