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supraorbital setx and smooth on front and vertex); clypeus con- 

 vex and hevigate towards base. Prothorax narrower than head, 

 small, cordiform (O'S x 1 mm.), widest and angulate near apex, 

 convex, not lobed at base; disc canaliculate; rather coarselj'- 

 shagreened and minutely transversely striolate (the striol?e 

 stronger near sides); anterior angles obsolete ; sides roundly 

 ampliate from neck to anterior lateral angles, obliquely (hardlj' 

 roundly) and continuously narrowed to base; basal angles not 

 marked; lateral border narrow, dilated to form a sharp setigerous 

 angle at widest part, a similar angulate prominence a little more 

 than midway to base, the course of the border behind the pos- 

 terior setigerous angle almost continuous with the part in front 

 of this angle. Elytra oval (2 15 x 15 mm.), convex, rather 

 opaque, shagreened, not sericeous, sexfoveate, lightly striate; the 

 stricB shallow, not clearlydefined, not punctulate. Length 3-6-3-8, 

 breadth 14-1-5 mm. 



Ilah. — N.S.W. : Sydney (three specimens occurred to me on 

 sandy ground near Manly, 14th December, 1895). 



Very closely allied to S. aterrwncK, Chaud., but differing by 

 size smaller; head smooth on front and vertex; prothorax 

 narrower, more strongly and evenly angustate to base, less 

 strongly and roundly narrowed behind posterior marginal promi- 

 nence, surface less rugulose, lateral border narrower, posterior 

 setigerous angles smaller. It may be not more than a variety of 

 *S'. aterrimus, but I have thought it sufficiently distinct to receive 

 a name. 



SCOPODES GRIFFITHI, n.sp. 



Upper surface aeneous or cupreous ; undersurface and legs 

 black. Head hardly as wide as prothorax (1*35 mm.) across eyes, 

 closely longitudinally striolate between eyes ; front irregularl}' 

 striolate anteriorly ; cl3'peus closely longitudinally striolate. 

 Prothorax cordate (1*2 x 14 mm.), roundly dilatate at anterior 

 third, strongly angustate to base, convex, shagreened and trans- 

 versely rugulose; apex wide, anterior angles not marked, widely 

 rounded, distant from neck; border very narrow, not reaching 



