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of anterior marginal seta), punctate, apex truncate (subemargin- 

 ate); angles widely rounded, distant from neck; base hardlv as 

 wide as apex, shortly sublobate, angles marked, obtuse at summit: 

 sides lightly rounded anteriorly, oblique posteriorly ; lateral 

 margins wide, depressed: median linestronglv impressed. Elvtra 

 wide, subquadrate : base truncate : humeral angles rounded : 

 striae lightly impressed: interstices depressed, finely and closelv 

 setulose-punctate Length, 5-2: breadth, 2-5 mm. 



ffab. — Tropical Queensland: Kuranda (Dodd) ; Normanby 

 River (Sloane). I found this species at King's Plains Station, 

 43 miles south west from Cooktown, beneath loose bark on a 

 river-gumtree {Eucalyptus sp.) in July. 



T consider this to be a species of Platia: and that Agonochila 

 minima Macl., ( = A. littei'a-v Chaud), Philophloeus frog gat ti 

 Macl., and Agonochila lineeUa SI , (from New Guinea) should 

 also be placed in the genus Platin. P. queetislandica is closely 

 allied to Agonochila Uneella SI., from which it differs chiefly in 

 the pattern of the elytra. In P. papuana (nom. nov. for P. 

 Uneella SI., preoccupied) the third, fifth, seventh, and eighth 

 interstices are occupied by yellow stripes, which all extend 

 beyond the middle of the elytra, and there are nine other maculre 

 on the elytra (two each on the second, sixth, and eighth inter- 

 stices, and one each on the third, fifth, and seventh); in P. 

 queenslandica, the fifth, seventh, and eighth interstices have 

 basal stripes which do not extend behind the middle, and there 

 are thirteen narrow macula? defined in all cases by the stria?, 

 which are black, viz., two each on the second and sixth inter- 

 stices, three each on the third and fourtli interstices, and one 

 posterior macula on each of the fifth, seventh, and eighth inter- 

 stices. 



Genus Phlceocarabus. 

 Phlceocarabus anchoralis, n.sp. 



Oval, depres.sed. Prothorax transverse, widest about middle 

 (a little behind anterior marginal seta); basal margin truncate 

 (a little oblique on each side, lightly curved backwards in middle): 

 elytra much wider than prothorax, striate: interstices subconvex, 

 minutely punctate, third interstice bipunctate. Tarsi with 



