r.v TTrO]k[AS 0. sloaxk. 421 



not protuberant, hardly visible from above : elytra short, sub- 

 oval, lightly punctate-striate: interstices depressed, glabrous, 

 third 3-punctate. Black, nitid; legs testaceous (tibiae and tarsi 

 a little darker than femora): mouth-parts and antenna^ ferru- 

 ginous: mesosternum, metasternum, and abdomen brown. 



Head wide (TSmm. across eyes), hevigate; front bi-impressed 

 between bases of antennse; submarginal carina near eyes well- 

 developed: eyes large, prominent. Prothorax as broad as long 

 (1-3 X 1-3 mm.), convex, glabrous, very finely transversely strio- 

 late, a few punctures along anterior and basal margins and in 

 lateral channel: apex truncate; anterior angles obtuse, slightly 

 distant from neck; sides rounded, strongly narrowed to apex, 

 lightly narrowed to base; basal angles obtuse; lateral borders 

 narrow, reflexed, extending round anterior angles on to sides of 

 apex; lateral channel wide, flat, sharply depressed belov/ plane 

 of pronotum. Elytra subquadrate with angles rounded (4 x 275 

 mm.), subdepressed, declivous to base, lightly declivous to sides; 

 humeral angles rounded, apex shortly rounded, widely subsiuuate 

 on each side; striae finely punctate; interstices glabrous, finely 

 shagreened under a lens; the three setse of third interstice placed 

 in wide, shallow fovese. Prosternum punctate. Undersurface 

 of head and body impunctate. Length, 7*5: breadth, 2-75 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland : Kuranda (Dodd). One specimen (type) 

 was received from Mr. F. P. Dodd, from Kuranda; and two other 

 specimens were among the duplicates of the Van de Poll Collec- 

 tion, labelled Cooktown. 



Allied to E. sublcevis Macl.,* with which it agrees in facies. 

 impunctate head and undersurface of body; but it differs by pro- 

 thorax impunctate on disc: elytra more nitid, striae not strongly 

 impressed, interstices not the least convex, not nearly so strongly 

 shagreened, setiferous fovese of third interstice less sharply 

 defined, shallower, wider, &c. From E. brunneipeniiis SL, it 

 differs by colour of elytra: head more strongly and shortly con- 

 stricted to neck : pronotum not punctate on disc, sides not 



' * Mr. F. P. Dodd sent me specimens of E. subkeris from Port Darwin, 

 and these .specimen.s I have compared with the type in the Macleay 

 Museum. 



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