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AUSTRALIAN STKONGYLIIN^, (feC, 



but not as wide as 8, 11 narrower than 10, widened at apex. 

 Prothorax 3x3 mm., subtruncate at apex and base, sides faintly 

 rounded, and arcuately converging in front without angles, pos- 

 terior angles subrectangular, basal margin with a strong fold 

 sulcate within, apical margin raised, lateral margin scarcely 



evident from above, disc 

 almost microscopically punc- 

 tate, medial furrow clearly 

 impressed. Scutellum rather 

 widely triangular, raised in 

 middle, smooth. Elytra par- 

 allel, moderately convex, 

 considerably wider than the 

 prothorax at base and nearly 

 four times as long, shoulders 

 prominent and rounded; sub- 

 sulcate-punctate, with nine 

 rows, besides a short scutel- 

 lary row of rather large, 

 round punctures, somewhat 

 closely placed in sulci, the 

 intervals smooth and strong- 

 ly raised, those near the 

 suture costate, becoming less convex laterally, the punctures 

 becoming subobsolete and the intervals flatter towards apex. 

 Underside apparently' quite Isevigate; legs very long, posterior 

 tarsi with basal joint not as long as the rest combined. Dimen- 

 sions, 14 X 4*5 mm. 



Hab. — Mackay and Cairns (North Queensland), ('?)Sydney(New 

 South Wales). 



Five specimens examined, 3 ^J, 29. It is widely separated 

 from the only nitid-black species so far described from Australia 

 {S. Mastersi Macl.) in its larger and more elongate form, and 

 having strongly raised intervals on the elytra. Superficially, it 

 is very like Homotrysis {Allecula) suhsulcata Macl. One of the 

 specimens in Mr. Lea's collection is labelled Sydney, and differs 

 from the Queensland examples in having less raised elytral 



Fig. 2. —Sfronyylium lonyipes. 



