98 [ October, 



is smooth, and tliere is a row of three or four ocellatcil punctures at 

 the base. The metasternal episterna are very sliort. The ventral 

 segments have each two punctures. 

 Nieol Bay ; West Australia. 



Neocarenum ctlindeipeicne, sp. n. 



N. elo7igato angustior ; nigrum, nitidum ; ehjfris quam thorncc 

 multo angiistiorihus, omnino transversim rugosuJis, punciis ocellatis sub- 

 marginalihus seriatim ordinatis. Long. 11 lin. 



Apparently closely allied to N. riigosulum, "W. McLeay, but differs 

 in the frontal furrows being remarkably deep, AT. rugtisoJum having 

 " capite leviter bisulcato ;" and also in the absence of all trace of 

 elytral strise. The head is similar to that of N. elongatmii, the frontal 

 furrows being deep, strongly flexuous, widely divergent behind, and 

 connected at their ends (on a level with the posterior margin of the 

 eyes) by a transverse furrow. The eyes are enclosed behind by a thin 

 orbit, which does not project beyond them. The surface of the head 

 is smooth and shining. The thorax does not differ from that of N. 

 elongatum. The elytra are much narrower than the thorax, nearly 

 cylindrical, very slightly narrowed to the base, with the humeral angles 

 scarcely advanced, and the suture not depressed ; the whole surface is 

 covered with short and very irregular shallow wrinkles, coarser near 

 the sides, where they obscure the sub-marginal row of large ocellated 

 punctures. The anterior tibise are bidentate, the middle tibiae uni- 

 spinose ; the suture between the second and third ventral segments 

 quite obliterated in the middle. The antennae are glabrous, with the 

 fifth to eleventh joints coarsely punctured and pubescent on their 

 edges ; the terminal joint tapers to the tip. 



AVest Australia. 



K^EOCAEEXrM RETL'SUM, S/J. 11. 



JElongatum, latior, minus convexum, nigruvt, suhfili.fsime coriaccum, 

 vix nitidum ; elytris hasi valde retusis, humeris sub-faleatis, punctis sub- 

 marginalibus null is ; fibiis anticis extiis tridentatis, subtus valdc dcntatis, 

 intermediis bispinosis. Long. 11. ^ lin. 



The head in this remarkable species resembles that of A\ elonga- 

 tum, with the exceptions that the lateral lobes project much more, niid 

 are more angular in front of the eyes, and that the posterior orbits 

 project beyond the eyes ; the frontal furrows are similar, but the 

 transverse furrow behind continues laterally to the hind margin of the 

 eye. The antenna? are still more glabrous, and the joints 5 — 11 have 

 strong punctulated grooves on their edges. The thorax is rather 

 shorter and broader, with rectangular a,jiterior angles, and acither an- 



