380 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, XV., 



Hab. — Q. : Kuranda (Dodd; March and April). 



I compared ihis species with the type of S. jjericalloides Macl., 

 in the Australian Museum and found it thoroughly distinct. It 

 differs decidedly from S. ^jericaZ^oic/e^j by the shape of the pro- 

 thorax, which has the sides far less ampliate at middle, much 

 less strongly sinuate posteriorly, and without the six or seven 

 long marginal setae of the anterior half; the anterior angles 

 triangular, not obtusely rounded, &c. The New Guinea genus 

 Stricklandia is now recorded for the first time from the Australian 

 mainland. 



Genus Scopodes. 



SCOPODES CYANEUS, n.sp. 



Upper surface bluish ; elytra violaceous ; legs testaceous. 

 Head wider than prothorax (1-2 mm. across eyes), smooth, nitid; 

 eyes large and prominent. Prothorax a little broader than long 

 (0-75 X 0*9 mm.), convex, nitid^ widest at anterior marginal seta 

 (this on a sharp triangular process), narrowed and transversely 

 impressed behind posterior marginal seta (this on a small angulate 

 prominence a little before the base); lateral border reflexed 

 between marginal setae. Elytra oval (2-3 x 1"6 mm.), punctate- 

 striate; interstices depressed, third without distinct discoidal 

 punctures.* Length 4, breadth 1-6 mm. 



Hab. — Q.: Kuranda (Dodd). 



A distinct species. Its colour, the striae of the elytra formed 

 of rows of strong punctures, and the third interstice without 

 foveiform punctures, are features that differentiate it from all 

 the other Australian species. According to the table of the 

 Australian species of Scopodes given by me in these Proceedings, 

 (1903, p. 637), it would be placed nearest S. aterrimus Chaud., and 

 S. Sydney ensis SI., but it is not at all closely allied to these 

 species. 



Scopodes angulicollis Macleay. 



Tians.Ent.Soc. N.S.Wales,ii.,1871,p.92; S. r iiJiosicoUis Slos^ne, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, 1903, xxviii., p. 639. 



* In my unique specimen I am able to detect only one fine puncture, 

 almost confused with the punctures of the third stria, placed about the 

 anterior fourth. 



