316 NEAV SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



rather longer. Prothorax with minute scattered punctures, elytra 

 densely and minutely, metasternum feebly but distinctly jDunctate. 



Prothorax rounded and feebly depressed at base, angles slightly 

 produced. Scutellum slightly longer than wide, semicircularly 

 rounded. Elytra considerably longer than wide, widest behind 

 the base, and slightly wider than prothorax, each feebly separately 

 rounded. Femora not very thick; distance between posterior 

 more than their length. Length 1^, width | (vix) mm. 



Hub — Clarence River. 



Differs from C. collaris in being larger, in having the punctures 

 on the prothorax stronger but less dense, its l^ase somewhat 

 different, and l)y the blotch about the scutellum. I have dedicated 

 the species to Mr. H. C. L. Anderson, formerly Director of the 

 New South Wales Department of Agriculture. 



ClYPE ASTER DORSALIS, nsp. 



Moderately elongate. Red; prothorax with a piceous mark at 

 apex, elytra with a brownish blotch about scutellum, the apex 

 picsous, the extreme apex lighter; metasternum darker than 

 above, muzzle and legs reddish-testaceous, apical joints of antennae 

 piceous-brown. Above with moderately long and not dense 

 pubescence, sparse on prothorax, sparser on the undersurface. 

 Alcove very densely and extremely minutely punctate, and with 

 minute scattered punctures; metasternum visibly punctate. 



Prothorax feebly depressed and almost truncate at base, angles 

 very slightly produced. Scutellum rather small, feebly transverse, 

 semicircularly rounded. Elytra longer than wide, widest behind 

 the base, and slightly wider than jDrothorax, each separately 

 rounded. Femora rather thick, distance between the posterior 

 greater than their length. Length 1, width \ mm. 



//a6.— Tweed River, N.S.W. 



Differs from C. collaris in being smaller, l^y the dark markings 

 of the elytra, prothoracic punctures much sparser and feebler, 

 and its base somewhat different; in this last respect it resembles 

 the preceding, but its much sparser puncturation and smaller 

 size will distinguish it from that species. 



