BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 183 



femora lobate, tibise strongly 4-dentate. Reddish piceous; elytra 

 lighter coloured than head and prothorax, with a dark piceous 

 spot on posterior part of disc. 



Head wide, depressed; front and clypeal elevation closely 

 rugulose-punctate; a round fovea in middle behind punctate part; 

 vertex wide, smooth; frontal impressions wide, shallow; facial 

 sulci lightly impressed; clypeal elevation hardly raised: clypeus 

 not divided from front; median part deeply emarginate, defined 

 on each side by a slight ridge, not angulate laterally; wings small, 

 not divided from median part, sloping roundly backwards to and 

 divided from supra-antennal plates by a faint wide sinuosity; eyes 

 prominent, hemispherical, lightly enclosed behind. Prothorax 

 subquadrate (1-5 x 1-55 mm.), lightly convex, coarsely punctate 

 except on anterior part of disc and near sides; anterior margin 

 truncate, angles obtuse, but marked; sides parallel, lightly and 

 widely emarginate; posterior angles marked; basal curve sloping 

 sharply to base on each side; median line deeply, anterior line 

 lightly impressed. Elytra very little wider than prothorax 

 (3-2 X 1-6 mm.), convex — not cylindrical, — parallel on sides; 

 base truncate; shoulders rounded, with border prominent; stri« 

 entire, seventh not interiyipted at beginning of apical curve- 

 interstices lightly convex, eighth finally carinate at base, narrow 

 and lightly carinate near apex. Anterior femora with lower side 

 forming a wide round pi'otuberance; external spur of intermediate 

 tibife long, acute. 



Length 6"3, breadth 1'6 mm. 



Hah. : Queensland — King's Plains Station (28 miles S. W. from 

 Cooktown; one specimen sent to me by Mr. N. H. Gibson). 



It seems to be allied to C. emarginata, Putz.; the clypeus and 

 anterior femora are apparently similar, but C. lohipes is evidently 

 a broader species, differing in having the prothorax not longer 

 than broad, and roughly punctate on the disc. From C. tumidipes, 

 SI., and C. pu7ictaticeps, Putz., species with lobate anterior 

 femora, it is easily distinguished by its wider and less cylindrical 

 form, shorter punctate prothorax, &c. 



