BY T. G. SLOANE. 443 



Hob. — Australia: Type (unique) in National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne, ticketed "Queensland." 



A very distinct species, in a general way resembling N. varii- 

 collis Chaud., but more elongate, convex, and cylindrical, and with 

 the posterior marginal puncture of the prothorax on the border. 

 The short posterior tarsi seem to ally it with N. lateralis SI., and 

 N. wentworthi SI., therefore, I have placed it in the same group 

 as these species, but it does not appear to have more than a general 

 relationship with them. It is readily distinguished from both N. 

 lateralis and N. wentworthi by having the prothorax more cordate; 

 elytra with basal border less raised at point of junction with lateral 

 border, third interstice 4-punctate, ninth depressed and wider, 

 tenth hardly developed, etc. Though the unique specimen in the 

 National Museum, Melbourne, is ticketed "Queensland," it seems 

 to me a southern form; and, for this reason, I think it possible 

 that the habitat Queensland may have been attached to it, in error. 



79.NOTONOMUS WENTWORTHI, n.Sp. 



Robust, parallel. Head large; prothorax subquadrate; basal 

 angles obtuse; posterior marginal puncture on border at basal 

 angle; elytra truncate-oval, strongly striate; interstices convex, 

 third 3-punctate as in N. lateralis SI., eighth wide, ninth very nar- 

 row ; posterior tarsi short. Black. 



Head convex (3 mm. across eyes) ; eyes (with orbits) reniform, 

 prominent, deeply set in orbits posteriorly. Prothorax broader 

 than long (3*8 x 4-3 mm.), lightly and evenly rounded on sides; 

 apex and base of equal width (3 mm.) ; apex a little emarginate; 

 basal angles roundly obtuse; lateral border even, narrow, thick; 

 lateral basal impressions wide, short; lateral basal spaces convex. 

 Elytra a little wider than prothorax (8*8 x 4'7 mm.), parallel, 

 rather depressed on disc, strongly declivous on sides and apex; 

 lateral apical sinuosities moderately developed; scutellar striole 

 very short ; basal border rather prominent, and a little raised above 

 lateral border at humeral angles ; tenth interstice narrow, elongate ; 

 lateral channel hardly widened near beginning of apical curve. 

 Intercoxal declivity of prosternum wide, of mesosternum flat. 

 Length 15-5, breadth 4-7 mm. 



