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thorace fere ut M. capitalis sed autice vix sinuato et linea 

 inediana longitudinali ad basin continue perspicua ; elytris fere 

 ut M. capitalis, sed stiiis 3'' et 4" perspicue crenulatis. 



Long. 20-22 1. Lat. 71-7^ 1. 



Rather close to the preceeding but more dej^ressed, the labrum 

 symmetrical, the line line on the prothorax more distinct and 

 continuous to the base, the dorsal stria; of the elytra more 

 distinctly crenulate, and especially the head very diflfereutly 

 sculptured ; the projection resembling a bitid lamina being 

 replaced by an arched carina which terminates in a tubercle at 

 each end these tubercles being connected by a tine straight carina 

 and the interval between them being scarcely less than the width 

 of the labrum. This head sculpture is not unlike that of AI. 

 politus, Burm. and M. dilatatiis^ Dalm., from both of which the 

 present species differs by the much longer joints of its antennal 

 flabellum and much larger size, while it differs inter alia from the 

 former also by its not being pilose on the front extero-auterior 

 declivity of its elytra and from the latter by the much wider 

 lateral interstices of its elytra and its pilose labrum. 



Queensland. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



Panelus (gen. Copridarum). 



P. Art/iiiri, sp. nov. Brevis ; latus ; nitidus ; piceus, pedibus 

 dilutioribus ; capite magno, minus crebre minus subtiliter 

 punctulato, antiee sat fortiter depresso et in medio dentibus 2 

 acutis armato, inter dentes fortiter emarginato ; prothorace fere 

 ut caput punctulato, quam longiori circiter duplo latiori, antiee 

 subito angustato, angulis anticis subacutis posticis obtusis ; 

 elytris modice convexis, 7-striatis, interstitiis vix manifests 

 punctulatis ; tibiis compressis, leviter arcuatis ; tarsis compressis. 



Long. 1 1. Lat. y'y 1. 



This interesting little species has been sent to me by Mr. 

 A. M. Lea, who has also given nie a specimen of P. parvulus, 

 Waterh., the type of the genus (which he tells me he received 

 from Mr. Lewis). The present insect is very much like P. 

 parznilus, but differs from it inter alia by its somewhat less 

 convex form and less strongly arcuate tibise, as well as by the 

 considerably stronger puncturation of its head and the stronger 



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