BY H. J. CARTER. 77 



Platyphanes minor, n.sp. 



Ovate, dark coppery-bronze (sometimes greenish), very nitid; 

 antennae, palpi, legs, and tarsi chestnut-red, underside reddish- 

 brown. 



Head and prothorax closely punctate, the former with labrum 

 slightly emarginate, epistoma evenly arcuate, can thus raised and 

 earlike, eyes separated by a distance less than the transverse 

 diameter of one eye, antennae not reaching base of prothorax, 

 their four apical joints strongly enlarged, 3 little longer than 4, 

 subconic, 8-10 nearly round, 11 longer and wider than 10, ovoid. 

 Prothorax rather squarely emarginate in front, anterior angles 

 advanced, acute but rounded at tips, not much wider at base 

 than at apex, sides nearly straight, feebly rounded anteriorly, 

 feebly sinuate near base; posterior angles acute and pointing 

 obliquely outward, margins raised, finely punctate, rather Avidely 

 channelled within, narrowly continued on apical border as far as 

 the eyes, base sinuate, without border. Scutellum nearly semi- 

 circular, convex and punctate. Elytra ovate, moderately convex, 

 wider than prothorax at base; humeral angle obtuse, scarcely 

 gibbous on shoulders nor compressed on flanks, their outline (seen 

 from the side) a regular curve, highest about the middle, margin 

 very narrow, the groove within it containing an irregular row of 

 large punctures, lineate-punctate, with about ten rows of large 

 round punctures, closely placed (at a distance less than the 

 diameter of one), and a short scutellary row, the punctures 

 becoming larger and sometimes confluent and irregular on the 

 flanks, intervals apparently quite impunctate and very nitid, 

 sometimes transversely raised (subcancellate). Abdomen finely 

 striolate, the two basal segments with large scattered punctures, 

 the apical segment with close minute punctures, metasternal 

 punctures similar to those of P. ellipticus (supra), the prosternal 

 sculpture much finer (not at all rugose), the process narrowed but 

 not carinate, mesosternal cavity and intercoxal process triangular; 

 tarsi as in P. ellipticus. Dimensions, 12 x 5^ mm. 



Hob. - Dorrigo, New South Wales(Mr. R. J. Tillyard). 



I am indebted to that enthusiastic naturalist, Mr. Tillyard, for 

 the two specimens described above, in which I cannot distinguish 



