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explanate lateral margins widely triangular and pointed at 

 anterior angles, wide and reflexed posteriorly; sides rounded on 

 anterior half, sinuate posteriorly and meeting base at right angles; 

 base truncate, sloping lightly forward from peduncle on each side; 

 basal angles obtuse, but marked. Elytra depressed, much wider 

 than prothorax (6*2 x 3-7 mm.), parallel on sides; shoulders 

 widely rounded ; striae strongly impressed ; interstices equal, 

 hardly at all convex, closely covered with setigerous punctures, 

 9th very narrow, depressed (convex just behind shoulder), 

 seriate-punctate. Length 11-5, breadth 3 '7 mm. 



Hah.—Q. : Cairns District (Coll. Sloane). Sent by Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd from Kuranda. 



Carpaulum porosum, n.sp. 



Upper surface brown-piceous; mouth-parts, legs and under sur- 

 face light brown; lower side of head, episterna of prosternum, 

 mesosternum and metasternum piceous, 



Head convex (2*2 mm. across eyes); frontal impressions strongly 

 impressed, rotundate; eyes prominent, deeply enclosed at base, 

 posterior parts of orbits much smaller and less prominent than 

 eyes; postocular tubercle small, sharp. Prothorax subcordate, 

 transverse (1*7 x 2*6, length 2 mm. at sides), closely set with fine 

 setigerous punctures; sinus to receive head truncate at bottom, 

 sides short, rounded; anterior angles widely rounded; disc lightly 

 convex, finely canaliculate; sides and base similar to those of C. 

 hiflaticeps, SI., but margins less widely explanate. Elytra (5-7 x 

 3*6 mm.) as in C. h^Jlaticeps, the juxta-humeral convexity of the 

 9th interstice less marked. Length 11, breadth 3-6 mm. 



Hab. — Q. : Kuranda (Dodd; Coll. Sloane). 



Differs from C inflaticeps, SI., by head smaller, less punctate, 

 eyes less prominent, postocular part of orbits much smaller and 

 less swollen; prothorax wider at base (2-1 mm.) than at anterior 

 angles (1-7 mm.), sides less strongly sinuate posteriorly, disc less 

 closely punctate, lateral margins less explanate especially towards 

 anterior angles, these less prominent, widely rounded (not pointed), 

 sinus to receive head shallower with sides rounded (not long and 

 oblique). 



