BY THOMAS (t. SLOAN't;. 431 



a little broader than long ( 1*25 x l"45iiui).), widest before middle, 

 convex, nitid, impunctate; apex truncate: anterior angles near 

 head, not marked: sides rounded anteriorly, subsinuate pos- 

 teriorly: base lightly bisinuate: basal angles subrectangular, 

 obtuse at summit; marginal channel wide, not explanate, deep 

 and foveit'orra at base: border narrow, reflexed, subangulate and 

 bearing anterior marginal seta a little before middle: median 

 line strongly impressed. Elytra almost twice as wide as pio- 

 thorax (4'3 x 2'7 mm.), convex; humeral angles rounded: inter 

 stices nitid, with a row of minute punctures along middle (under 

 a strong lens), three inner stria? obsolescent near base. Lengtli, 

 7'5; breadth, 2*7 mm. 



Hah. —Queensland : Kuranda ( Dodd). Unique, in Coll. Sloane. 



Allied to X. nigricincta SI.; head and prothorax of similar 

 form {X. nigricincta also has apex of abdomen in ^ unipunctate 

 on each side): but differing by colour, prothorax wider and 

 shorter, basal angles more marked, lateral basal fove?e deeper and 

 longer; external angles of elytra less widely rounded, »fcc. 



XANTHOPHa:A DORSALIS, n.sp. 



^. Narrow, elongate Prothorax strongly sinuate posteriorly; 

 basal angles prominent, acute : elytra crenulate-striate; inter- 

 stices convex, finely punctulate, lirst interstice with a strongly 

 marked striole at base, third unipunctate at apical fifth. Head 

 and prothorax ferruginous ; legs, antenna?, mouth-parts, and 

 uietasternum yellow; elytra piceous, with a wide, testaceous, 

 sutural area, abdomen piceous. 



Head wide ( 1*1 mm. across eyes), lightly obliquely narrowed 

 l^ehind eyes: orbits not swollen behind eyes; vertex lanigaie: 

 front with an irregular impression on each side; eyes large; 

 antenn?e with three basal joints glabrous. Prothorax hardly as 

 wide as head with eyes (1 x 1-05 mm), subdepressed, transversely 

 striolate on each side; disc nitid, impunctate; apex truncate: 

 anterior angles widely rounded : sides roundly ampliate on 

 anterior two-tliirds, strongly sinuate posteriorly, out-turned to 

 basal angles, these acute: base truncate on each side, median 

 part widely and lightly rounded; a wide, subdepressetl space 



