BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 471 



hardly narrower at base than apex, punctate, base widely lobate; 

 elytra punctate-striate, interstices lightly convex. Piceous-black; 

 legs testaceous; antennje, mandibles, and mouth-parts reddish, 

 (antennae, after second joint, a little darker). 



Head finely punctate, not rugulose in middle, lightly longi- 

 tudinally rugulose on each side near eyes; front depressed; eyes 

 convex, prominent, strongly enclosed behind; postocular part of 

 orbits protuberant, about one-half size of eyes. Prothorax de- 

 cidedly wider than head (1*2 x 1-5 mm.), subnitid on disc, finely 

 punctate, widely rugulose-punctate towards margin; sides lightly 

 rounded, very little narrowed (not sinuate) to posterior angles, 

 these small, dentate; basal curve rather short, sinuate on each 

 side; lobe rounded; median line strongly impressed. Elytra 

 truncate-oval (3 X 2-3 mm ) : base emarginate ; humeral angles 

 rounded; stria3 narrow, deeply impressed, distinctly punctate; 

 interstices lightly convex, finely shagreened, third with a punc- 

 ture at basal third; striole at base of first interstice well developed, 

 punctate. Length, 5; breadth, 2*3 mm. 



Idab. — N.T.: Port Darwin (Dodd). Unique in Coll. Sloane. 



A distinct species, differing from the other, small, described 

 species by head wider, less punctate; prothorax less narrowed to 

 posterior angles, these less prominent. Cymindis crassiceps 

 Macl., is a species of Nototay^us, but is much larger. 



NOTOTARUS ANGUSTICOLLIS, n.Sp. 



Depressed. Head long, convex; prothorax narrow; elytra 

 wide, truncate-oval, striate, interstices punctate. Black; legs 

 and undersurface piceous; mouth-parts, tarsi, and trochanters 

 reddish. 



Head narrow (1-7 mm. across eyes), convex; vertex punctate; 

 sicfes lightly swollen behind eyes; postocular prominences about 

 two-thirds length of eyes, less prominent than eyes; two supra- 

 orbital punctures on each side, posterior considerably behind 

 eyes; eyes distant from prothorax, small, round, convex. Mentum 

 edentate. Lahial palps securiform. Base of maxillae prominent. 

 Prothorax narrow (1-7 x 1*8 mm.), wider at apex (1*7 mm.) than 

 base (1-4 mm.), broadest a little before middle, narrowly de- 



