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A more cylindric species than any of the preceding, distin- 

 guished also by the rough puncturation of its elytra, which also 

 are transversely wrinkled. In the example before me there are 

 four very conspicuous black splashes on the hinder half of each 

 elytron. Compared with the elytra of the European Cyphon 

 pallididus, Boh., those of the present species are distinctly more 

 closely and roughly punctured. 



S. Australia ; near Port Lincoln. 



Helodes (Cyphon?) lindensis, sp.nov. 

 Ovalis ; minus convexus ; pubescens ; nigro-piceus, supra ferru- 

 gineus vel brunneo-testaceus (elytrorum fascia mediana 

 infuscata excepta), antennis (his apicem versus infuscatis) 

 pedibusque testaceis ; capite prothoraceque snbtiliter sat 

 crebre punctulatis ; hoc brevi fortiter transverso angulis 

 posticis subrectis ; elytris subtiliter minus crebre punctulatis ; 

 antetmarum articulis 2° 3° que (hoc quam ille graciliori vix 

 breviori) conjunctis 4° longitudine sat aequalibus. 



[Long, li, lat. 1 line. 



This species is certainly near to H. Adelaide, but is larger, less 



elongate and slender, and differently coloured ; its elytra are a 



little less closely punctured, and the 3rd antennal joint is larger 



in proportion to the 2nd and 4th joints. 



S. Australia ; near Port Lincoln. 



Sclerocyphon, gen. no v. 



Caput breve, labro parvo ; oculi sat rotundati, prothorace late 

 obtecti ; antennae quam caput prothoraxque conjuncta haud 

 multo longiores, articulo 1° modice elongato, 2° parvo, 3°-7° 

 compressis triangularibus, 8°-ll°nliformibus; scutellum mag- 

 num ; prosternum retrorsum fortiter anguste productum ; 

 mesosternum sat planum, antice ad processus prosternalis 

 receptionem profunde triangulariter excisum ; tibiae apice 

 leviter spinosae ; tarsi quam tibiae fere longiores, articulis 1-4 

 ex ordine minus elongatis minus validis, apicali praecedenti- 

 bus 3 conjunctis longitudine subaoquali ; unguiculis intus 

 leviter dentatis ; corpus breviter ovale, robustum. 



