BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 365 



Head large (3-3 mm. across eyes), strongly bi-impressed between 

 antennae. Prothorax transverse (3 8 x 5 mm.), wider at base 

 (4 mm.) than at apex (3-4: mm.), depressed; sides arcuate, shortly 

 subsinuate just before base; basal angles subrectangular, obtuse 

 at summit; border narrow towards apex, wide towards base; 

 posterior marginal puncture on border at basal angle; median 

 line strongly impressed; lateral basal impressions short, foveiform, 

 joining marginal channel by a narrow impression posteriorly. 

 Elytra truncate-oval (9 x 5*6 mm.), deeply striate; twelve convex 

 more or less undulate interstices on each elytron, first bearing a 

 short deep striole at base, second catenulate on apical declivity, 

 third bipunctate on apical half, costiform behind second puncture, 

 eleventh very narrow, seriate-punctate, twelfth linear, extending 

 forward for half the length of elytra; basal border raised and 

 obtusely dentate at humeral angles. Intercoxal declivity of 

 prosternum flat, of mesosternum wide, not concave. Ventral 

 segments nitid, punctate laterally. Length 14'5-16"5, breadth 

 5'l-5-6 mm. 



Hah. — Q. : Athertou. 



Two specimens {$^) of this remarkable species occurred to nie 

 in dense scrub at Atherton on the upper waters of the Barron 

 River, North Queensland, in June, 1906. Its position is near 

 N. australasice Dej., though probably it has more affinity to 

 N. opacistriatus SI., than to any other described species. The 

 remarkable interstitial sculpture of the elytra differentiates this 

 species from all others hitherto described. If the interstices at 

 the apex are counted, ten will be found (ninth seriate-punctate), 

 which is the normal number in Notonomus, but towards the base 

 there are twelve (eleventh seriate-punctate); the two extra inter- 

 stices result from the seventh interstice branching into three 

 interstices of normal width a little before the apex. 



NoTONOMUS KiNGi W. S. Macleay. 

 Poecilus kingi W. S. Macleay, King's Survey, 1827, ii. p. 438. 

 The description of Pcecihis kioigi W. S. Maclea37-, is brief and 

 vague in the extreme, not even the size being given, so that it 



