Ivi PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



punctures on tLe basal margin of the elytra, but none on 

 the disc. 



SCARAPHITES LATICOLLIS. 



Niger subnitidus, capite quadrato subplano antice subrugoso 

 sulcis frontalibus brevibus subparallelis, labro brevi, thorace 

 longitudine duplo latiore angulis posticis subemarginatis, 

 elytris subovatis basi truncatis subtiliter subrugosis et 

 substriatis marginibus lateralibus e basi prope apicem 

 punctatiSj tibiis intermediis extus spina subacuta subapicali 

 dentibusque, 8 vel 4 parvis armatis. 

 Long. 18 liu. lat. 7 lin. 



Hab. Northern Territory of South Australia. 

 This is the first ScarapMtes I have seen from the North Coast 

 of Australia. It differs from all the other species in not having 

 any lateral punctures on the elytra, excepting in the margin. 

 The head is broad and rectangular, the thorax is twice as broad 

 as long, and the elytra are not widened towards the apex as is 

 usual in the genus." 



The Secretary laid Part 4 of the Transactions of the Society 

 on the table. 



4th DECEMBER, 1855. 

 The Rev. R. L. King, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. MacLeay exhibited specimens of Psamatha chahjhea 

 Schuckard, and of Dlamma hicolor, Westwood, which appear, on 

 the evidence of G. W. Rusden, Esq. of Brighton, near Mel- 

 bourne, who has had abnndant opportunities of testing the 

 correctness of his observations, to be the former the male, the 

 latter the female of one and the same species. 



Tlie President read his fourth and concluding Paper on the 

 Psela])liidcB of Australia, in which he described some new species, 

 and gave a resume of all those hitherto described, making in all 

 seventy species. 



5th march, 1866. 

 The Rev. R. L. King, Pkesidknt, in the Chair. 

 The President read a Paper descriptive of a new genus and 



