714 A LIST OF THE TROGOSITID.E OP AUSTRALIA, 



Head transverse. Antennse pale ferruginous, the club moderately 

 compact, three jointed. Prothorax at the base more than twice 

 as broad as long, deeply emarginate in front ; anterior angles 

 acute ; lateral margins very broad, reflexed, finely punctured and 

 pubescent. Scutellum very small, transverse, very finely and 

 closely punctured. Elytra about one and a half times as long as 

 the head and prothorax together, slightly narrowed behind, finely 

 and closely punctured on the disc, more finely and closely 

 punctured near the sides ; lateral margins broad, reflexed and 

 finely punctured. Underside and legs rather pale ferruginous. 

 Length 2f-3Jmm. ; greatest width 2-21 mm. 



Moriai'o, New South Wales ; South Australia ; King George's 

 Sound, West Av;stralia. 



Allied to the preceding species but easily separated by its smaller 

 size and more ovate form, by its more arcuately rounded prothorax 

 and by its pale coloured lateral margins. 



Peltoschema. 



Eeitter, Yerh. ver. Brxinn, XVIII., p. 4 (1880). 



This genus is only known to me by the abstract of Herr 

 Reitter's description published in the " Zoological Record," for 

 1880, judging from which it appears to differ from all the 

 Australian forms in having the prothorax bilobed and the anteu.i jb 

 eleven jointed and filiform. 



27. Peltoschema filicornis. 

 Peltoschema filicornis, Reitter, Verb. ver. Briinn, XVIII.. p. 5 

 (1880). 

 Australia. 



LOPHOCATERES. 



Olliff, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 180 and Cist, Ent. III., 

 p. 58 (1883). 



Body elongate, free from scales. Head almost truncate in 

 front. Antennee eleven jointed, the eighth joint somewhat 

 broader than the preceding ones, the three terminal joints 

 forming a gradual and moderately compact club. Elytra finely 



