BY H. J. CARTKK. 713 



towards apex the third, fifth, and seventh intervals forming 

 prominent ridges, the tliird and seventh joining close to apex. 

 Prosterniiin punctate, its process declivous, mesosternum widely 

 excavate, abdomen smooth, or only microscopically punctate on 

 last segment; tibife unarmed at apex. Dimensions : 14x6 mm. 



//rt6.— North Queensland (? Kuranda; H. Dodd). 



A single female specimen, with prominent ovipositor, received 

 some time ago from Mr. Dodd, of Kuranda, without special 

 locality-label. The only other species of this genus described 

 from Australia is T. catennlata AUard, from which the above 

 may be easily distinguished by noting the following details in 

 the description of Allard's species. Size 7x3 mm. Colour 

 reddish-brown or bronzy; prothorax strongly bisinuate at base, 

 posterior angles directed backward, and acute. Elytra with 

 thirteen furrows. Type in Coll. Carter. 



Catophkrus, n.g. 

 Apterous; ovate; head vertical, labrum prominent, showin 



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membranous hinge; mandibles singly pointed at apex, epistoma 

 convex, squarely rounded, limited behind by a well-marked 

 suture; eyes horizontal, wide, nearly enclosed by prothorax, and 

 impinged on by the obliquely-raised canthus, last joint of max- 

 illary palpi securiform; antenna? long, slender, apical joints not 

 enlarged nor flattened, joint 1 large, swollen at apex, 2 bead- 

 like, the other joints obconic. Prothorax bulbous, largely 

 enclosing head, sides continuous with episterna (upper and lower 

 surface subcontinuous). Elytra very convex and ovate, nearly 

 twice as wide, and more than thrice as long as prothorax, seriate- 

 punctate. Prosternum narrowly declivous, mesosternum widely 

 excavate, posterior intercoxal process widely arcuate, front coxie 

 round, raid coxse with trochantins, hind coxse widely separated. 

 Legs long, femora swollen, pro- and mid-tibiie slightly curved, 

 tibial spurs small; apex of tibiae and tarsi clothed witli fine short 

 hairs, first joint of hind-tarsi longer than claw-joint. 



An aberrant genus, unlike any Australian Tenebrionid known 

 to me. The form, curiously humped, with head quite invisible 

 from above, except for the tips of the canthi, suggest some of 



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