BY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF. 471 



Richmond River, New South Wales. 



IMore nearly allied to Catascopus Chaudoiri than to any other 

 Australian species, but readily distinguished by its brighter colour, 

 more robust form and strongly punctured elytra. 



No. II. — On a New Species of Rhysodid^. 



The following species from the collection of the Macleay 

 Museum represents a family hitherto unobserved in Australia. 



Rhysodes lignarius, sp. n. 



Elongate pitchy-black, shining ; head rather broad, impunctate, 

 with a oblique groove on each side extending from the base of the 

 antennje to the middle of the posterior margin ; the head con- 

 siderably swollen behind these grooves ; prothorax narrowed 

 behind, with a strongly impressed median groove, and an equally 

 strong slightly out-curved groove on each side extending from the 

 anterior margin to just before the base ; elytra rather strongly 

 punctate-striate. 



Head with a fine reflexed anterior margin ; eyes moderately 

 j)rominent. Antennae finely pubescent. Prothorax not much 

 longer than broad, strongly narrowed behind, impunctate, the 

 dorsal grooves foveolate at the base ; the sides strongly rounded ; 

 the posterior angles somewhat acute. Elytra at the base a little 

 broader than the prothorax ; humeral angles moderately promi- 

 nent ; each elytron with seven rather strongly punctured striae, 

 the interstices moderately broad, slighthy convex and impunctate ; 

 the apex distinctly rugose-punctate, not shining. Underside 

 coloured as above ; the prosternum irregularly rugose-punctate ; 



meso- and metasternum verv strongly punctured at the sides, a 

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