BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 579 



2nd reniform, transverse opposite beginning of apical curve 

 (extending from 3rd to 8th stria), an apical pale spot common to 

 both elytra; legs pale, rather lurid; antennae fuscous, two basal 

 joints jDale. 



Head lightly convex in middle between eyes; a short ridge 

 extending backwards from base of each antenna at a little dis- 

 tance from lateral margin and bearing the supraorbital setse. 

 Prothorax transverse (O'G x 0-9 mm.), lightly convex, rounded on 

 sides ; basal angles sharp (not dentate), rectangular. Elytra 

 wide, ovate, depressed; three inner strise strongly marked on 

 disc, subcrenulate, 1st entire, 4th hardly marked; recurved 

 striole of apex strongly marked on each elytron; submarginal 

 stria (8th) obsolete on middle of sides, well marked behind 

 shoulders and towards apex; two setigerous punctures on each 

 elytron, anterior about middle on course of 3rd stria, posterior 

 just within anterior extremity of recurved apical striole. Length 

 2-7-3, breadth 1 -15-1 -3 mm. 



Rab.—Q. : Townsville (Dodd; Coll. Sloane). 



According to the tabular arrangement of the Australian species 

 of Tachys formerly given by me, this species goes with T lindi, 

 Blkb., in Section " uu." It differs greatly from T. lindi by colour 

 (prothorax black, elytra black, with the posthumeral maculae 

 smaller and not reaching the base), stria3 more strongly impressed, 

 <fec. I have dedicated it to Mr. F. P. Dodd, of Townsville, who 

 sent me a fine series of specimens. 



Tachys sinuaticollis, n.sp. 



Oval, head with frontal impressions shallow; prothorax trans- 

 verse-cordate (base wide), sides sinuate before basal angles; elytra 

 oval, lightly convex, disc faintly striate, submarginal stria obso- 

 lete on sides, recurved striole of apex short, feebly impressed. 

 Testaceous. 



Prothorax with sides strongly rounded on anterior three-fourths, 

 sinuate posteriorly and meeting base at right angles; basal angles 

 rectangular (obtuse at apex); middle of base lightly produced 

 backwards; a depressed basal area above peduncle, this area 



