BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 359 



apical joints shorter (07 mm.), equal; apical truncate. Maxillce 

 with outer lobe longer than inner, 2-articulate; inner lobe stout, 

 hooked at apex, inner side closely beset with bristles. Ligida 

 short, corneous, with two widely placed setse at apex. Prothoracc 

 transverse; three or four widely placed setae along lateral margins, 

 the posterior seta near edge of explanate margin just before basal 

 angles. Elytra widely oval, strongl}'- punctate-striate, not 

 bordered at base; margin interrupted and with an internal plica 

 near apex; a short striole at base of first interstice. Body sub- 

 pedunculate; scutellum wide. Abdomen with a strongly raised 

 wide border along anterior margin of segments 4-6; first segment 

 meeting metasternum and dividing posterior coxse. Prosternn/m 

 with intercoxal part wedge-shaped; posterior declivity narrow, 

 vertical. Mesosternum with intercoxal declivity deeply excavate, 

 a strong keel-like ridge on each side. Legs stout; tibiae wide at 

 apex, anterior with inner side emarginate before apex, inner 

 spur above emargination; tarsi of moderate length, fifth joint 

 setulose beneath. 



CUNEIPECTUS FRENCHI, n.spT~ 



Robust, wide, oval, glabrous; black. Prothorax transverse 

 (6 X 9 "3 mm.); apex truncate behind head; anterior angles shortly 

 advanced, wide, roundly obtuse; sides rounded, more gently 

 narrowed to base than to apex ; base wide, truncate across 

 peduncle; basal angles produced shortly backwards, obtuse; disc 

 convex, canaliculate, transversely striolate; posterior marginal 

 seta on border near edge at a little distance (1 mm.) from basa} 

 angle; border wide with edge thick, produced at anterior and 

 basal angles Elytra wide, oval (19 x 12'6 mm.) ; shoulders 

 rounded off; apex wide, strongly sinuate on each side; disc wide, 

 subdepressed, hardly declivous to base behind scutellum, but 

 strongly so on each side of base; striae deep, coarsely punctate; 

 interstices wide, lightly convex, seventh more raised, subcosti- 

 form, forming outer margin of disc; space betw^een summit of 

 eighth interstice and lateral border depressed, rugose-punctate. 

 Length 29, breadth 12-6 mm. 



Hah. — W.A.: Norseman District (Coll. French; unique). 



