98 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



not the suture, and the third occupying slightly more than the 

 apical third; suture and margins brownish. Part of posterior 

 coxae and of metasternal episterna stramineous. Undersurface 

 and legs almost glabrous. 



Head almost triangularly raised in the middle; punctures as in 

 the preceding species, but rather coarser. ProtJiorax densety 

 punctate, punctures larger but scarcely more elongate posteriorly; 

 base less than half the width of apex; posterior angles feebly 

 acute; scutellar lobe raised, sloping and polished behind; sides 

 scarcely sinuous. Elytra divided almost from the extreme base, 

 each strongly impressed along middle; the black portions with 

 strong, moderately long and rather dense punctures, the paler 

 portions polished and impunctate, except at sides and in the 

 vicinity of the spots, where a few are scattered about. Sterna, 

 especially the mesosternum, densely punctate. Length 5J, 

 width 2 mm. 



Hah. — N.W. Australia (Maclea}'- Museum). 



In shape and pattern of markings resembling the preceding 



species, but the punctures (especially of the elytra) very different 



in character. Of two specimens under examination, one has the 



whole of the antennae whilst the other has only the basal joints 



pallid. 



EvANiocERA Perthensis, Blackb. 



This remarkable species is common in West Australia; I have 

 it from Darling Ranges, Swan River, Pinjarrah and Geraldton. 

 One of my specimens was taken whilst struggling in the embraces 

 of a species of Drosera. 



Evaniocera Gerstaeckeri, Macl. (Ptilo2)horuSy MacL), 



I have two specimens of this species (obtained in copula at 

 Tamworth, N.S. W., on the flowers of lucerne) that were compared 

 with the types, and agree with them. The species supposed by 

 Mr. Champion (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895, p. 273) to be 

 JS. Gerstdckeri is very different, and is formally described below. 

 Mr. Champion says of it : — " The pubescence has the appearance 



