706 



HETEKOMEKA, AlC., FROM TROPICAL AUSTRALIA, 



ginale at apex, anterior angles acute, sides veiy feebly widened 

 to beyond half-way, then slightly sinuous before the sublobate 

 (produced but blunted) hind angles, base feebly bisinuate, sides 

 with narrow raised border, concave within border, but without 

 any differentiation from disc in sculpture, medial line faintly 

 impressed. Scutelhnii widely transverse and punctate. Elytra 

 of same width as prothorax at base, widest behind middle, each 

 elytron with four shining black crenulate costte (the suture 

 also slightly raised), the first joining the third near apex, the 



second much shorter, joining the 

 first before the apical declivity, the 

 fourth more irregular and discon- 



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Text -fig. 2. Text-fig. 3. 



NyctozoHu>< purriis^ n.sp. N. DcemeU Habag. 



nected; intervals uneven, with a subobsolete indication of ver- 

 miculation, and (under a lens) seem to be densely punctate. 

 Underside finely punctate. Dimensions : 1 H X 5| mm. 



Hah. — Townsville, Queensland ( ll^jner Fischer; from National 

 Museum, Melbourne). 



A single specimen sent, is an ally of N. DcHineli Haag, from 

 which it differs in its narrower, more straightened prothorax, 

 with its more acute anterior and sublobate posterior angles 

 (acute in 0. Dcevieli). The sculpture of the whole upper surface 

 is finer, and the body less widened behind, than in my specimen 



