274 REVISION OF THE GENUS NOTONOMITS, 



posterior marginal puncture on border at basal angle : elytra oval; 

 humeral angles rounded; striae deep; interstices convex, third 5- 

 or 6-punctate. Dark metallic copper colour with a rather purple 

 tinge, head more brassy, margin of elytra dark; under surface 

 black; legs piceous, excepting anterior pair piceous-red. 



Head small (3-5 mm. across eyes); frontal impressions distinct, 

 narrow, divergent posteriori}^; eyes almost hemispherical, much 

 more prominent than orbits; posterior part of orbits protuberant, 

 sloping sharply to head. Prothorax broader than long (44 x 

 4-8 mm.), widest before middle, a little wider across base (3 -6 mm.) 

 than apex (3-4 mm.) ; sides lightly rounded, gently narrowed 

 without sinuosity to base; basal angles obtuse but marked; base 

 lightly emarginate; lateral border narrow anteriorly, much wider 

 and reflexed near base, thickened to receive posterior marginal 

 puncture at basal angles; median line well marked; lateral basal 

 impressions wide, deep, linear at bottom. El3'tra oval (9-5 x 

 5*8 mm.), lightly convex; lateral sinuosities of apex well marked; 

 basal border hardly raised at humeral angles, joining lateral border 

 with just the slightest interruption; ninth stria and tenth inter- 

 stice well developed. Intercoxal declivity of prosternum narrow 

 and rounded in middle; of mesosternum lightly concave. Length 

 18-5, breadth 5*8 mm. 



Hab. — Victorian Mountains, Track from "Wood's Point to the 

 Yarra (Best; Coll. Sloane). 



Allied to JV. macoyi, SL, but differing by colour; head smaller, 

 eyes more prominent. Compared with JV. gipjMandicus, Casteln., 

 (as identified by me) the colour is different, the eyes more 

 prominent; the prothorax more transverse, with posterior angles 

 less marked, &c. 



Note (1). — A specimen (9) given to me by Mr. C. French, 

 ticketed "Victoria," is larger (19-5x7 mm.); head larger; pro- 

 thorax more transverse (4-5 x 5-4 mm.), more roundly ampliate at 

 widest part; elytra more convex, interstices very lightly convex 

 except at apex. Elytra blackish-purple (not metallic); prothorax 

 and head gilded copper colour, otherwise agreeing in colour with 



