532 AUSTRALIAN STRONOYLIINiE, ifec, 



Prothorax subcordate and rather flat, widest at middle, bisiniiate 

 at apex, the rounded anterior angles a little produced, sides arcu- 

 ately widening from apex to the middle, then subangularly nar- 

 rowed, in a wide curve, posterior angles obsolete, base narrow 

 and subtruncate; disc everywhere densely punctate, the punc- 

 tures round and deep. Scutellum transverse, oval, punctate. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax at base and nearly three and 

 a half times as long, shoulders prominent and rather square, 

 sides a little compressed before and widened behind the middle, 

 a narrow lateral raised border not evident from above; each 

 elytron with about four subobsolete costse, the 2nd and 3rd most 

 apparent, posterior half of elytra with irregular lightly raised 

 reticulation (somewhat as in Lepispilus), the whole surface (in- 

 cluding costse, transverse strigse, and interspaces) crowded with 

 round punctures without any seriate arrangement, the irregular 

 raised surface at the sides on the pale-coloured margins showing 

 large smooth spaces ; whole underside densely punctate and 

 glabrous, legs with sparse clothing of short yellow hairs on under- 

 side, tarsi pilose. Dimensions: (J, 12 x 4 mm.; 9, 15 x 5 mm. 



Hah. — Mount Horror, Tasmania (O. L. Adams, per A. M. Lea), 

 also Tasmania (Coll. Blackburn). 



Three specimens examined, one (^, two 9, of this interesting 

 species, the 9 specimens being larger, with thicker antennal 

 joints and a prominent ovipositor. The characters diagnosed 

 above show an insect widely separated from any hitherto de- 

 scribed member of the subfamily. Type ^ in Coll. Lea; 9 in 

 Coll Carter. 



GONOCEPHALUM ALTERNATUiM, n.Sp. 



Shortly ovate, opaque-brown with asperate derm. 



Head with epistoma rounded in front, excised in the middle, 

 the canthus impinging on the eyes beyond halfway, the width of 

 the exterior piece about equal to the diameter of an eye, surface 

 finely shagreened. Antennae rather short, joint 3 twice as long 

 as 4, 4-8 successively shorter and wider, 9-10 very transverse, 

 11 widely ovate. Prothorax very transverse and widely hori- 

 zontally explanate, anterior foliation produced (in normal position 



