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ing abruptly before the apical declivity, striae and punctures 

 obsolescent at apex; abdomen with first segment coarsely rugose, 

 with a few large punctures, between the coxae, these punctures 

 and rugosity finer on the second segment, apical segments 

 minutely and densely punctate ; intercoxal process widely 

 V-shaped, metasternum smooth, prosternum compressed, its pro- 

 cess saddle-shaped, terminating anteriorly in a sharp angle, pos- 

 teriorly bluntly rounded, with a corresponding mesosternal cavity, 

 the latter strongly rugose or subtubereulate; legs stout, middle 

 tibiae slightly curved, tibial spurs very short, posterior tarsi with 

 claw joint nearly as long as the rest combined. Dimensions, 

 25 x 101 mm. 



Hub. - Queensland. 



Var.(or 9) subangulatus, smaller and more bronzed, legs and 

 antennae a paler red-brown, with anterior angles of prothorax 

 produced but rounded, elytral intervals flatter, the punctures in 

 striae smaller, those in the sixth and ninth rows more irregular. 



The species is near 1\ oblongus Waterh., but differs in the 

 shape of prothorax, with its strongly dentate anterior angles, 

 and nearly straight sides, reddish legs, and antennae; moreover, 

 the short scutellary stria (present in P. oblongus) is wanting. I 

 have been much puzzled as to the relation between P. quadri- 

 foveatus and the var. specified above, but being unable to find 

 any describable differences of structure, except the remarkable 

 one of its anterior angles, I prefer, for the present, not to con- 

 sider the var. as a distinct species. I believe them to be of 

 opposite sexes. 



The type of P. quadrifoveatus is in the National Museum, 

 Melbourne; var. subanyulatus is in the author's Coll. There is 

 a specimen of the former in the Macleay Museum and of the 

 latter, one in the British Museum consignment, from the Rich- 

 mond River; and I have since received another from Mount 

 Tambourine, Q., through Mr. R. J. Tillyard. 



Platyphanes ellipticus, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, apex somewhat acuminate ; dark coppery- 

 bronze, nitid, sometimes greenish; epipleurae bright bronze ; 

 underside, legs, and antennae black. 

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