290 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTBRA, 



widely transverse. Elytra with suture carinate, each with a shining 

 costa on 4th interstice terminated at posterior declivity; margins 

 moderately wide at base, suddenly narrowed and then feeble to 

 apex. Legs moderate, claw joint of anterior tarsi thick, longer 

 than the rest combined, of intermediate as long, and of posterior 

 not quite as long. Length 10, width 6 J mm. 



^a6.— Mullewa, W.A. 



Described from a specimen taken alive; in two found dead (one 

 of which measures 1-1x8 mm.) the elytral punctures are notice- 

 able to the naked eye, and the setse are sparse and minus the five 

 more elongate rows. The species appears to be closest to 

 falcatus from South Anstralia, from the description of w^hich it 

 differs in not having the anterior angles of prothorax acutely 

 pointed, the elytra dull, and narrow margins without granules. 



HBLiEus ECHIDNA, White ; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3771. 



Sir William Macleay's description of this species is somewhat 

 misleading, as he fails to mention the two tubercular spines on 

 the prothorax, and that the sutural rows of spines terminate 

 before the apex of the elytra. The species is readily identifiable 

 by the figure accompanying the original description. 



Sympbtbs acutifrons, n.sp. 



Broadly ovate, feebly shining. Piceous-brown, mai'gins tes- 

 taceous, their edges brown, apices of abdominal segments tinged 

 with testaceous. Elytra with very minute, pale, depressed setie, 

 under surface with moderately dense and very short pubescence. 

 Head densely and irregularly punctate; prothorax minutely, its 

 margins more noticeably punctate; elytra with dense and leather 

 minute punctures, their epipleurse very distinctly punctate; under 

 surface minutely punctate. 



Clypeus convex, its disc within a circular depression; a distinct 

 shallow impression between eyes. Prothorax widely transverse, 

 base trisinuate, irregularly transversely impressed in middle and 

 more feebly towards sides, a feeble median carina becoming feebly 



