64 REVISION OF THE SUBFAMILY TE XEBRIOSINjE, 



the inside, giving an appearance of an excision. Dimensions, 

 11-5-13-5 X 4-5-5'5 mm. 



Bab. — Kuranda, North Queensland (F. Dodd and A. M. Lea). 



Four specimens, two of each sex, examined, one sent to me 

 some time ago by Mr. Dodd, the other three, taken by Mr. Lea, 

 evidently difter from the well-known E. punctipennis Pasc, in the 

 following characters : (l)form wider and more robust, (2) colour 

 more nitid, (3) antennae stouter, and especially more enlarged 

 apically, (4)elytral striae more distinct, seriate punctures closer, 

 (5) stouter femora, and the posterior tibial excision of the male. 

 Type in the author's Coll. 



Promethis major, n.sp. 



Elongate-obovate, nitid black, antennae piceous, tarsi and apex 

 of tibiae clothed with red tomentum. 



Head as in P. nigra Bless., but with stronger punctuation, the 

 antennae also stouter and more evidently punctured. Prothora.r 

 6 X 7*2m.m., subquadrate, widest in front, the apex nearly straight, 

 anterior angles widely rounded, reflexed and projecting outwards, 

 lateral border thickened in front, narrowed and slightly sinuate 

 behind, without any twist or erenulation, base bisinuate, posterior 

 angles obtuse, but less so and more prominent than in P. tiigra; 

 disc closely punctate, the medial line deeply sulcate, but not quite 

 extending to apical border. Scutelhmi punctate, curvilinear-tri- 

 angular. Elytra obovate, much wider than and more than three 

 times as long as the prothorax, striate-punctate, each elytron with 

 nine rows (besides a short scutellary row) of large round punc- 

 tures, the punctures close but not contiguous, nor at all hidden in 

 the striae; the first two rows continuous to apex, the third and 

 fourth connected, the fifth and sixth connected in front of the 

 former^ the seventh and eighth connected behind the preceding, the 

 ninth on the sides containing less defined punctures; the intervals 

 rather sharply convex and very minutely punctate. Abdomen 

 closely but irregularly covered with large round punctures, these 

 larger, deeper and more numerous than in P. nigra Bless., meso- 

 and metasternum rugose, their sides only punctate, prosternum 

 transverselv rug-ose. 



