Australian Coleoptera. 231 



and legs being entirely testaceous or reddish testaceous], also in 

 its very evidently less robust form and more slender antennae. I 

 have little doubt also but what the antennae are more elongate 

 than those of quietus but as they are both broken in my single 

 example of that species I cannot be sure. I notice also that 

 in my specimen of quietus the elevated line that forms the 

 sutural margin of each elytron is much darker in colour than 

 the other elevated lines, while in the numerous examples that 

 I have seen of S. concolor in several collections that line is of 

 the same pale straw colour as the other lines. Compared with 

 S. suturalis the present species is seen to be very distinct by the 

 very much less uneven surface of its prothorax on which there 

 are uo elevations that can be correctly called distinct tubercles ; 

 it also differs from 6". suturalis in its much less robust antennae, 

 of which the basal point in particular is notably more slender. 

 In a considerable number of specimens of 6". concolor examined 

 by me I have not found any variation in colouring, nor have I 

 seen any variety of S. suturalis similarly coloured. 

 Victoria ; Dividing Range ; on flowers ; Tasmania. 



Syllitus. 



.S". heros^ sp. no v. Nigro-fuscus, capite prothorace (hoc longi- 

 tudinaliter plus minusve manifeste fusco-3-vittato) antennis 

 versus apicem coxis genubus et (nonnullorum exeraplorum) 

 pedibus anticis et tarsis omnibus rufis, elytrorum sutura margine 

 laterali et lineis 4 elevatis (e his 3" brevi subhumerali) albidis ; 

 antennis maris quani corpus baud (feminse paullo) brevioribus ; 

 capite subtilius minus confertim (postice sat confertim) punctu- 

 lato ; prothorace confertissime subtilissime subaspere puctulato, 

 leviter obtuse 4 tuberculato, ante medium leviter constricto, ^^one 

 medium lateraliter sat gibbo, trans basin sulcato ; elytrorum 

 lineis elevatis 1" et 2' (liac quam ilia breviori) in medio fortiter 

 divergentibus et inter se maculam pallidam intercludentibus. 



Long. 5^-6 1. Lat. 1 1. 



Its large size distinguishes this species from all its described 

 Australian congeners except Parry i ; the numerous white lines on 

 its elytra distinguishes it from them all. The suture and lateral 

 margin are white and between these each elytx'on bears 4 raised 

 white lines; the subsutural one nearly I'eaching the apex, the 2nd 



