540 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERID^E, 



posterior edge sinuous, clothed laterally with a fringe of short 

 black hair. Forceps strong, moderately long, widened trans- 

 versely at base, setigero-granulate, laminae moderately large, 

 almost touching the posterior end projecting backwards. Legs 

 long, tibise lightly sinuate, clothed with black setae, stronger and 

 thicker on the under surface. 



$. Of a shorter and more oval form than (t. Head without 

 gular horn; prothorax(7 x 7 mm.) not so strongly produced, and 

 without the impressions on the disc, coarsely and rather sparsely 

 granulate. Elytra(15 x 10 mm.) more rounded on sides, and apex 

 more produced than in ^. Sculpture as in ^j except that the 

 fovese are not so well marked, nor so regular. Undersurface 

 convex, third and fourth ventral segments longer, fifth without 

 excavation Dimensions : (J, 23 x 9; 9, 22 x 10 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales : Inverell, Glen Innes (H. J. Carter) 

 — S. Queensland. 



PSALIDURA COSTIPENNIS, 11. Sp. 



(J. Elongate-ovate, convex. Gular horn present; prothorax 

 overlapping head, finely granulate; elytral interstices costate, 

 fourth and sixth interruptedly granulate. Black, subnitid; 

 feebly clothed with minute muddy scales, especially in the elytral 

 striae; setae brown; tibiae densely clothed with strong dark- 

 coloured setae. 



Head convex, hidden by prothorax. Rostrum short, dilated 

 on sides, ridges rather flat, sulci deep, median notch present, 

 central area depressed in front; head and rostrum setigero-punc- 

 tate. Mandibles simple; throat armed with a tongue-shaped, 

 coarsely punctate horn projecting back from the mentum. Pro- 

 thorax(7*5 x 7 mm.) moderately dilate on sides, and strongly pro- 

 duced in front in a median lobe, base truncate; collar-constriction 

 faint, no median line present; disc closely and finely granulate, 

 especially towards centre, the granules setigerous, and with 

 rather a rubbed appearance. Elytra(16 x 10 mm.) strongly 

 rounded on sides, widest beyond middle; apex raucronate, fully 

 flanged; base truncate, humeral angles not marked. Disc convex. 



