BY 11. J. CARTER. 



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furrow; (2) the anteiiual orbits are rounded; (3) the elytra are 

 without any basal margin. Type in the author's coll. 



Agasthenes Stepheni, n.sp. (Text-tigs. 3a-36). 



Elongate, ovate, black, smooth, opaque; labrum and oral organs 

 piceous; antennas piceous at base, lighter towards apex. 



Head wide; labrum prominent, transverse with rounded angles, 

 clothed with reddish hair; antennte with first two joints short, 

 third not quite so long as the fourth and fifth com- 

 bined, joints 3-7 subconical, 8-11 much shorter, 

 subspheroidal and flattened; front and epistoma 

 finely punctulate. Prothorax strongly transverse 

 and moderately convex, much wider than long 

 (6 X 10mm ), arcuately emarginate in front, front 

 angles scarcely acute, rather bluntly rounded, sides 

 gradually widened to beyond the middle, but con- 

 stricted near base, hind angles acute, directed 

 obliquely backward, lateral margins rather wide, 

 edges strongly thickened; apex bordered only near 

 anterior angles, base with narrow border throughout. 

 Disc nearly smooth, towards the sides minutely 

 punctured (not visible to the naked eye^. Scutel- 

 lum convex, very widely transversely triangular. 

 Elytra convex, elongate-ovate, smooth except for 

 the single row of punctures at margin, not extending 

 to apex; wider than prothorax at base. At each 

 I/f side a shallow furrow from shoulder to apex; 



\ \ shoulders not prominent, margins reflexed through- 



aA out, especially at shoulders. Beneath black; ab- 



domen with faint longitudinal wrinkles; submentum 

 finely punctulate, metathorax and abdomen smooth; 

 femora finely punctured, tarsi and tibia? (near apex) 

 clothed with golden tomentum. Intercoxal process 

 widely curvilinear and subtruucate. Dimensions — - 

 Long. 21-22mm.; lat. 10-11-5 mm. 



Hah. — Forbes, Weddin Forest, Canbelego, N.S.W. 



Fig. 3rt. c? 



Fig. 36. 

 Anterior tarsus 



