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a narrow border only perceptible at apex. Elytra closely applied 

 to, and of the same width as, prothorax at base, shoulders 

 rectangular, sides curved and widened to two-thirds of tlie length, 

 finely bordered and more narrowly explanate than in 0. cliryso- 

 meloides. Disc very convex, with greatest height about middle, 

 there slightly gibbous; humeral callus distinct; with lines of 

 large punctures, irregular near suture, regular towards sides of 

 disc, obsolete at apex and margins, the intervals somewhat 

 vermiculately rugose; also two indistinct costse on each elytron, 

 namely, a short scutellary costa, and one on each side of suture 

 continuous almost to apex. The whole underside and legs 

 clothed with fine recumbent pale-coloured down. Dimensions — 

 11x8 mm. 



Hah. — Xortli Queensland. 



I have a single specimen, received some time ago from Mr. H. 

 Hacker (probably from Coen River). There are also specimens 

 in the Macleay Museum. It differs widely from 0. chrysomeloides 

 Pasc, and 0. gihhus Blackb., in its smaller size (Pascoe gives 

 6 lines for his species; my own three specimens of 0. chrysomeloides 

 measure 15 mm.), duller and more metallic colour, and coarser 

 sculpture throughout. 



Note. — In Masters' Catalogue a double misprint has occurred, 

 first in the spelling of Ospidus, secondly in giving Castelnau as 

 the author of this genus instead of Pascoe. 



Agasthenes Goudiei, n.sp. (Text-fig. 1). 



Elongate-ovate, subparallel, black, moderately nitid, antennae 

 and tarsi piceous-black, the latter, together with apex of tibiae, 

 clothed with reddish pile. 



Head : labrum strongly produced, punctulate, rounded at sides, 

 and showing membranous hinge; epistoma truncate, bluntly sub- 

 rectangular at sides, defined behind by bisinuate line indistinct 

 in the middle; antennary orbits rising and widening in a regular 

 curve towards base (not subparallel as in A. Westivoodi Bates), 

 front and epistoma finely and rather distantly punctulate, eyes 

 large, transverse and flatter than in A. Westwoodi; antennae at 

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