278 KEVISION OF THE GENUS NOTOXOMUS, 



head larger than ^, and with lateral curve of prothorax usually 

 more oblique posterior^. Length 17-22, breadth 5-7-7'5 mm. 



/{ab. — N.S.W. : Springwood (Sloane ; common); Sydney 

 (Froggatt, Lea, Sloane; rare); Thornleigh (Froggatt). 



iV. Jietcheri has the facies of N. ceneomicans, Chaud., and 

 resembles that species in the wide borders of prothorax and elytra, 

 and the form of the lateral basal impressions of the prothorax, but 

 may be distinguished at once by having the intercoxal declivit}'- of 

 the prosternum narrow and rounded — not flat and margined 

 laterally. It is more nearly allied to N. variicollis, Chaud., from 

 which it differs by its less elongate form; head larger; prothorax 

 much wider, more widely margined; elytra wider, more rounded on 

 sides, humeral angles strongly dentate, lateral border wider and 

 more reflexed. 



NOTONOMUS STRZELECKIANUS, n.Sp. 



Var. (?) JV. (Plerostichus) j^^'^Uipsii, Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Vict. 1868, p. 212. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Head large; prothorax subquadrate, a 

 little narrowed to base; basal angles obtuse, but marked (some- 

 times almost rectangular); posterior marginal puncture distant 

 from base, in lateral channel : elytra oval, convex, strongly striate; 

 interstices convex, third 5-punctate. 9 usually with six setigerous 

 punctures near apical margin of last ventral segment. Head 

 black, with vertex bronzy; prothorax of a dark coppery-bronze, 

 usually lighter and more brassy laterally ; elytra dark, of a 

 bronzy or purplish tint; legs piceous. 



Head large (3-3 mm. across eyes); frontal impressions strongly 

 marked, wide, parallel; eyes convex, moderately prominent, post- 

 ocular part of orbits nearly the length of eyes, rising gently from 

 head ; prothorax broader than long (4 1 x 4*7 mm.) ; lightly 

 narrowed to base, wider across base (3-6 mm.) than apex (3*3 mm.); 

 sides lightly rounded, gently and obliquely narrowed to base 

 without sinuosity ; border wide and strongly reflexed behind 

 anterior marginal puncture; median line well marked; lateral 

 basal impressions deep. Elytra truncate-oval (9-5 x 54 mm.), 



