BY THOMAS G. SLOANB. 313 



lateral border reflexed, rather wide on middle of sides, very 

 narrow near base; striae deep; interstices convex, very strongly so 

 on apical declivity, third wide, usually 3-punctate (rarely a fourth 

 puncture present about basal fourth, rarely only 2-punctate), 

 eighth a little wider than ninth on basal half and reaching to 

 base, ninth narrow, interrupted on inner margin by the umbilicate 

 punctures, tenth well developed towards apex, short, narrow 

 (subcarinate). Intercoxal declivity of prosternum wide, flat; of 

 mesosternum flat, hardly concave. Fourth and fifth ventral 

 segments very lightly and widely transversely impressed; apical 

 segment in ^ 6-punctate. 9 with first joint of anterior tarsi 

 wide (not dilatate), clothed beneath with a thick brush of whitish 

 squamulse. Length 11-7-15-5, breadth 4-1-5 mm. 



Hah. — Yic. : Upper Yarra (Best), South Gippsland (French). 

 • A distinct species varying greatly in size and appearance. Mr. 

 Masters has informed me that it is to his knowledge Fernnia 

 opuleiita, Casteln., and I had arrived at the same conclusion from 

 Castelnau's too brief description. I also think that Chaudoir's 

 description of JV. parallelomorpha is founded on a form of iV". 

 opulentus; one of the specimens in my collection agrees closely with 

 his description, even having three punctures on the third interstice 

 of one elytron and two on the other. If I am right in my identi- 

 fication of N. parallelomor'pha, Queensland is not its habitat. I 

 place Feronia auricollis, Casteln., as a synonym of N. opulentus 

 on Chaudoir's authority. 



NoTONOMus .ENEOMiCANs, Chaudoir. 



Bull. Mosc. 1865, ii. p. 84; Feronia (^Pterosticlius) lapeyrousei, 

 Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. 1868, viii. p. 213. 



9. Robust, convex. Prothorax cupreous (very dark on disc, 

 bright tov/ards sides); head black, with faint cupreous tinge; 

 elytra black, with faint metallic tinge, ninth interstice and margin 

 cupreous, inflexed margins with an aeneous tinge. Head large 

 (4-5 mm. across eyes). Prothorax truncate-cordate (5 -15 x 6-5 mm.), 

 a little wider across base (4*7 mm.) than apex (4-5 mm.); sides 



