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BY THOMAS G. SLOAN E. 351 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw informs me, however, that there is a specimen 

 (which 1 must have overlooked) in the Howitt Collection — at 

 present in his charge — ticketed Scaraphites carhonarius Cast. 

 It is to be hoped the vexed question of the identity of this species 

 may be settled authoritatively sooner or later by an examination 

 of the type. 



Genus Laccoscaphus. 



Laccoscaphus quadriseriatus, n.sp. 



Elliptical-oval, robust, convex; head with two supraorbital 

 punctures on each side; each elytron with four rows of deep 

 fovepe; anterior tibiae 3-dentate. Black, margin of prothorax and 

 elytra and bottoms of elytral fovea? cupreous. 



Head transverse-quadrate (4*9 mm across eyes); frontal sulci 

 hardly divergent backwards, connected behind by a rounded 

 impression; three subequal frontal spaces clearly defined from 

 occiput; eyes small, lightly convex, not prominent. Prothorax 

 convex, transverse (4-25 x 6-3 mm.); sides subparallel, rounded 

 at posterior angles, lightly sinuate on each side of the wide basal 

 lobe; anterior angles roundly obtuse, a little advanced but not 

 prominent; border thick, refiexed, a little narrower on sides than 

 on each side of basal curve, not refiexed in middle of basal lobe; 

 median line distinct; a transverse line defining basal area; a wide 

 shallow rounded impression before each side of basal lobe; four 

 marginal punctures on each side, anterior puncture just behind 

 anterior angle. Elytra convex, ovate (10 x 6-3 mm.), widest 

 behind middle, a little narrowed to base; sides slightly rounded; 

 base lightly truncate-emarginate behind lobe of prothorax; four 

 rows of large deep fovete on each elytron, and a row of ocellate 

 punctures placed in foveiform depressions along sides ; border 

 refiexed, upturned (but roundly obtuse) at humeral angles. 

 Length 18*5, breadth 6-3 mm. 



Hah. — Australia (type in Coll. Deutsche Entomologische 

 National Museum, Berlin). 



In these Proceedings (1905, p. 116 )I have given a synoptic 

 table of the species of Laccosca^phns, following which the position 



