BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 533 



I have not seen a male of this species, but it is so perfectly 

 distinct from all previously described of the genus that I have no 

 hesitation in describing it. 



S. Australia ; basin of Lake Eyre. 



TENEBRIONID^E. 



Blepegenes nitidus, sp.nov. 



Obscure seneus, sat nitidus, pedibus nigro-piceis (tibiis apice 



tarsisque rufescentibus exceptis), antennis basi piceis apicem 



versus rufescentibus ; vix manifeste punctulatus ; capite 



haud spinoso, fronte retrorsum in spatio depresso postice 



bifido leviter elevata ; collo et mesothoracis scuto granulatis ; 



prothorace antice in medio sat anguste emarginato, lateribus 



in medio sat fortiter (et postice minus fortiter) rotundato- 



dilatato ; elytris fortiter striatis, interstitiis omnibus 



manifeste (alternis magis fortiter) costatis, costis ante apicem 



obsoletis. [Long. 9£, lat. 3? lines. 



Differs from B. aruspex, Pasc, in the head not spinose, in the 



forehead being gradually and widely elevated hindward into a 



kind of flattened tubercle, in the prothorax being emarginate in 



the middle of its front margin and having . merely rounded 



dilatations in the places where that of aruspex is spined, and in 



the elytra having all the interstices of the strise nitid and 



costiform, — the alternate interstices being not much more costate 



than the rest. B. equestris, Pasc, is a larger insect with the 



elytral interstices costate only at the sides. 



Queensland ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



D^edrosis victoria, sp.nov. 



Angusta ; convexa ; nitida ; atra, vix aeneo-micans, antennis 

 palpis pedibusque rufis ; capite in figura pentagonali depresso, 

 crasse subcrebre vix rugulose punctulato ; prothorace quani 

 longiori vix (antice quam postice paullo) latiori, antice 

 truncato haud canaliculato, fortiter sat crebre punctulato, in 

 medio anguste longitudinaliter lsevi, lateribus modice arcuatis 



