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peduncle ; shoulders hardly marked ; border narrow, forming a 

 veiy faint vertical projection at the shoulders, and a thick rounded 

 edge along the sides, as usual in the genus ; each elytron with two 

 strongly impressed punctures on the disc, the anterior placed a 

 little distance from the base, and rather nearer the suture than 

 the margin, the posterior on the apical third, about midway 

 betwee3n the suture and the margin; four or five strong punctures 

 on base of each elytron, not placed in a depression near the 

 shoulder ; a row of separate ocellate punctures along lateral 

 margins — these more closely placed behind the shoulders ; suture 

 strongly impressed. Prosternum hardly impressed between the 

 cox£e. Femora dilatate in middle ; anterior very wide, compressed, 

 channelled below ; anterior tibiae bidentate, and otherwise as 

 usual in the genus ; intermediate tibiae wide at apex, with a 

 strong acute spur externally. 



Length 13-75, breadth 3-5 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland. 



This beautiful species is one of the many novelties sent me by 

 C. French, Esq., who informs me it comes from Queensland, 

 inland from Cooktown. It seems allied to E. magnificuin, MacL, 

 but is differently coloured both above and below ; it must also 

 resemble E. punctipenne, Macl., the prothorax of which is 

 described as having *' three seta-bearing punctures in each lateral 

 margin," and the elytra as having " four (sometimes five) impressed 

 punctures on each elytron in a line nearer to the lateral margin 

 than to the suture;" yet Sir William Macleay places it in the 

 group with two punctures on the elytra in his list of species in 

 1887.^ 



Genus Neocarenum. 



The following are apparently the most typical features of this 

 genus : — 



Form elongate and parallel-sided ; antennae moniliform, lightly 

 incrassate ; head with the space between frontal sulci and sides 



* P.L.S. N.S.W., 1887, ii. (2) p. 119. 



