BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 153 



The above is M. Putzeys' original description, which he supple- 

 mented by a longer and more minute one in French, from which 

 I take the salient features as follows :- -* 



The epistoma is widely emarginate, its angles ai'e pi'ominent and 

 clearly separated from the wings which are rounded and a little more 

 advanced. The eyes are very prominent; posteriorly they are en- 

 closed in the lateral margins of the head. The impression which 

 separates the head from the neck is- hardly distinct, especially in 

 the middle. The strife of the elytra are rather weak, but their 

 puncturation is very distinct; they are less strongly impressed 

 towards the external margin and hardly perceptible at the apex. 

 The sixth interstice unites very indistinctly with the marginal 

 border above the shoulder; not one of the striae touches the base- 

 The anterior tibiae have at the apex a rather short digitation and 

 a large strongly marked tooth. 



In his " Revision Gendrale" M. Putzeys forms a separate group 

 (twenty-fifth) for G. attrata; and treats of it in the following 

 terms : This species, unique up to the present, has so much resem- 

 blance to C. australasice, that at first sight it might be taken 

 for a mere variety. The tooth of the mentum is longer, attaining 

 the height of the lateral lobes. The mandibles are very short, 

 broad, less arcuate, less acute, only carinate at the base. The 

 prothorax is much more convex, hardly narrowed in front, almost 

 square, with the sides rounded and the antei'ior angles very 

 declivous. The elytra are truncate at the base, the shoulders 

 marked, the striae wider and more deeply punctate. The fifth 

 stria, and not the fourth touches the eighth interstice at the base. 

 The central carina of the prosternum is rather strongly narrowed 

 between the coxse, shortly and lightly canaliculate; the apex is 

 oval, deeply foveolate on the base. 



* This revision being intended for the use of students in Australia, who 

 often are unable to refer to the older (and scarce) literature of other 

 countiies, all M. Putzeys' species have been dealt with, and translations of 

 his remarks (except Latin diagnoses) on all species that are unknown to the 

 author have been given. 



