186 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, I., 



about the middle of the disc, and a deep punctate pit near the 

 border. (I have named this interesting insect after Mr. H. 

 Morley, on wliose land it was found, and to whose hospitality we 

 owed much.) 



CORIPERA DISTINCTA, n.sp. 



Flat, ovate, shining, dark bronze. Under side of tarsi casta- 

 neous. Under surface and legs shining black. Antennae and 

 palpi dull black. 



Head coarsely punctate, except on epistoma, where punctua- 

 tion is finer and denser. Eyes prominent, globular and coarsely 

 granulated. Strongly impressed bisinuate epistomal ridge, with 

 convex central part, seen from behind, swollen. Antennce stout, 

 5 mm. long, 1st joint short and thick, 2nd small, 3rd about as 

 long as 4th and 5th together, 8-11 evidently larger than preceding 

 and hirsute, 11th bluntly ovate. Prothorax (3*5 x 5 mm.) strongly 

 transverse, disc slightly convex in front; in general an evident 

 median line. (In two out of tive cases before me, only visible on 

 front of disc.) Whole surface rugose, marginal rugosity trans- 

 verse. Disc with irregular (in number and position) deep 

 depressions, filled with punctures, one larger than others, generally 

 on middle of disc. Margin broad with narrow recurved border^ 

 front angles blunt but prominent, reaching to one-half width of 

 eyes; from here the sides widening gradually to about J length 

 of prothorax, where they round in a sharp curve to base, to meet 

 at right angles a strongly toothed base angle. Width between 

 teeth 1 mm. Elytra (8-9 x 5-5-5 mm.) as broad at base as pro- 

 thorax at widest (in one specimen before me distinctly wider), sides 

 parallel for % of length, then sharply narrowed; ap)ical declivity 

 steep, elytra meeting almost at a point. On each elytron four 

 rows of geminate striae, faintly punctate (stride rarely conjoined 

 so as to appear as enclosing long o\'al spaces). Between these, 

 three rows of ocellate, longitudinal rings, generally eight in 

 number, becoming fainter towards apex. Epii^leuro', shallowly 

 punctate. Scutellum small, transverse and finely punctate. 

 Leys with tibire distinctly curved, under side of tarsi and tibiae 



