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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. Part I. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A. 



Fam. TENEBHIONID^. 

 Pterohel.eus ICARUS, n.sp. 



Dull opapue black, ovate, slightly convex. 



Head large, smooth, lateral border of epicranium rounded at 

 base angles and raised but not toothed; clypeus slightly convex 

 and rounded, front depressed. Antennae longer than prothorax 

 (7 mm.), last four joints orbicular and closely jointed. Prothorax 

 (5 X 12 mm.) evenly rounded, strongly transverse, smooth, with 

 well defined broad margin of even width, strongly dentate and 

 flattened posteriorly, rounded and raised anteriorly, where its 

 angles reach to one-third the length of and close to the head. 

 Of two specimens under observation one shows a faint medial line. 

 Elytra (13-2 x 12*5 mm.) oval, parallel to half their length, then 

 regularly rounded to apex, depressed at humeral region, abruptly 

 convex behind; margins flat and broad at shoulders, gradually 

 narrowing towards apex. Disc of elytra with three indistinct 

 costse, which become obsolete at apex, three very faint striae 

 between these. Femora dilated, tihioi and tarsi clothed beneath 

 with light brown hair. Abdomen densely but finely striated 

 longitudinally. 



^a6.— Forbes, N.S.W. (per Mr. W. A. Stephen, of Lachlan Gold 

 Fields), also Weddin Mountains, N.S.W. 



This species belongs to the quasi-apterous group noticed by 



Mr. Lea (these Proceedings, 1896, p. 284), except that while the 



wings are rudimentary the elytra are not soldered together. It is 



quite distinct from any Pterohelreus with which I am acquainted, 



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