76 SUBFAMILIES CYPHALEINjE AND CN0DAL0N1 NJE. 



ally widening, 8-10 nearly round, 1 1 shortly ovoid. Prothorax 

 5x8 mm., arcuate-emarginate at apex, anterior angles advanced 

 but rounded, sides evenly rounded, wider at base than at apex; 

 posterior angles obtuse, base sinuate, central lobe produced, 

 lateral borders round and reflexed, narrowly channelled within, 

 the border slightly produced, on apex gradually evanescent 

 towards the middle, disc closely and evidently punctate, with two 

 small foveae near the middle, central line only indicated on basal 

 half by some lsevigate spaces. Scutellwm large, triangular, its 

 sides rounded, nitid and finely punctate. Elytra convex, nowhere 

 gibbous, soon widening behind prothorax, then parallel for the 

 greater part, and evenly rounded at apex, substriate-punctate, 

 the striae not always evident, with ten rows of punctures (besides 

 a short scute! lary row), the punctures successively larger from 

 suture to the sides, those on the centre of disc somewhat as in 

 Chahopterus iridicolor Bless., but less evenly spaced; between 

 rows 3 and 4 a short extra row starting from the base and 

 suddenly ending at a distance slightly beyond the scutellary row, 

 all punctures becoming obsolete at extreme apex; intervals flat 

 and laavigate; legs and underside minutely punctate, base and 

 sides of metasternum with transversely ridged punctures, its 

 epimera with a few larger round punctures, prosternum com- 

 pressed and carinate in front, rounded and produced behind into 

 the corresponding mesosternal cavity; legs rather short, the tibiae 

 compressed and wide (the anterior and intermediate slightly 

 curved), tarsi shorter than usual, the claw-joint of posterior tarsi 

 as long as the rest combined. Dimensions, 20 x 10| mm. 



Mob. — Duaringa, South Queensland; Cairns, N.Q. 



Two specimens, male and female, the former obtained from 

 Mr. W. Duboulay, the latter from Cairns, are superficially like 

 some of the larger species of Chalcopterus, especially in the 

 colour, form and sculpture of the elytra, and are not very near 

 any described species of the genus, though evidently belonging 

 to the group that contains P. elongatus Macl., and P. oblongus 

 Waterh. Specimens examined from Melbourne and Adelaide 

 Museums. Type in the author's Coll, 



