BY THOMAS G. SLOANB. 163 



fifth at base; interstices lightly convex on basal part of disc, 

 depressed posteriorly, eighth narrowly carinate at apex; submargi- 

 nal humeral carina short, feebly carinate. Prosternum with inter- 

 coxal part small, verj'^ narrow anteriorly, sulcate on base; 

 episterna minutely shagreened, the transverse striolpe hardly per- 

 ceptible. Anterior femora wide, lower side rounded; tibi;e 

 4 dentate. 



Head rather small; frontal impressions wide, well marked; 

 clypeal elevation raised and prominent; clypeus divided from 

 front by a shallow punctulate impi'ession, depressed near antei'ior 

 margin; median part em alginate truncate, its angles hardly 

 advanced beyond wings, hardly marked; wings truncate, external 

 angles marked, obtuse; supra-antennal plates large, projecting 

 strongl}^ and sharply beyond wings of clypeus, rounded and 

 margined laterally; eyes lightly convex, not prominent, strongl}^ 

 enclosed behind. Prothorax leather longer than broad ( 1-7 5 x 17 

 mm.); sides widely and very feebly sinuate behind anterior 

 angles; anterior margin truncate, anterior angles marked, obtuse. 

 Elytra elongate, very little wider than prothorax (3'8 x 1-75 mm); 

 four inner strise strongly impressed, fifth and sixth strongly 

 impressed near base, becoming obsolete after anterior third, 

 seventh entire, distinctly impressed; posterior puncture of third 

 interstice near apex. 



Length 7, breadth 1-75 mm. 



Hab. : Soutia Australia — Port Lincoln (Coll. Castelnau). (Two 

 specimens were sent to me by Mr. Masters, ticketed South 

 Australia.) 



It appears probable that the identification of^C. ohliquata has 

 been rendered difiicult by a certain vagueness in Putzeys' des- 

 cription, e.g., when he says that C. ohliquata may be distinguished 

 at the first glance by its long, narrow and almost cylindrical 

 elytra; this probably should be read as comparative to C. 

 inelayiopyga, Putz.; the onl}^ other member of the group in which 

 he placed C. ohliquata, known to him, and of which he sa3"s the 

 elytra are elongate, almost cylindrical (though, being a more than 

 usually depressed species, I should not call them so); again, 



