564 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERID.E, 



rather shallow. Mandibles with outer opaque portion clothed 

 with yellowish setae, and produced anteriorly to form a prominent 

 lip. Prothorax rounded, subglobular(7'5 x 8-5 mm.); median lobe 

 feebly produced, collar-constriction well marked; disc with three 

 lines of yellow scales, the median one most marked; granulate, 

 granules fine, rounded, discrete, setigerous. Elytra(18 x 11 mm.) 

 gently rounded on sides from behind shoulders, apex abruptly 

 rounded, mucronate; base widely emarginate, shoulders pro- 

 minent, tuberculiform. Disc irregularly and shallowly foveo- 

 striate, foveae separated by irregularly placed granules; interstices 

 rather broad and ill -defined, finely granulate, granules prominent 

 and shining, umbilicated, each puncture bearing a yellow seta, 

 arranged in double series excepting on the fourth and sixth 

 interstices, where they are in single series; sutural interstice 

 irregular, onl}^ distinct in basal half. Sides irregularly granulate; 

 Metasternum shallowly impressed in middle, sides slightly raised, 

 transversely rugulose. Yentral segments: fifth large, deeply 

 excavate, excavation not reaching anterior margin; preanal fossa 

 deeply sunken, sharply marked off; posterior border fringed with 

 short red hair; fascicles short, close together(l mm.), situated 

 just within excavation; interforficular processes of fifth segment 

 and apical tergite meeting and supporting a tuft of reddish 

 bristles. Forceps very long, arcuate; laminae small, rounded and 

 situated at extreme base; penis rounded and notched at apex. 

 Legs moderately long, densely clothed with yellow hair inter- 

 mingled with dark setae. 



9. Of a more rounded and shorter form than ^. Mandibles 

 simple, head and prothorax(7 x 8 mm.) as in g; elytra ovate 

 (17 X 10*5 mm.), regularly and gradually rounded on sides, apex 

 mucronate; sculpture and clothing as in ^; ventral segments 

 convex, third and fourth larger, fifth not excavated. Dimensions : 

 (J, 27 X 11-5; 9, 25 x 10-5 mm. 



Hab. — South Queensland: Daandine(T. G. Sloane) — New South 

 Wales: Coonamble, Kiacatoo(T. G. Sloane); Moree, Galston(A. 

 M. Lea). 



