178 ox THE SCARITID^ OF NEW HOLLAND, 



Esq., and is marked as having been sent to liira by G. F. Angas, 

 Esq. 



4.— Carenum striato-pdnctdlatum. 



Nigrum nitidum subangustum, elytris subconvexis quadripuuc- 

 tatis leviter striato-punctulatis, tibiis anticis extus bidentatis. 

 Long. 10 lin., lat. 3 lin. 

 Hab. Murrumbidgee. 

 The whole insect is of an uniform shining black. The facial 

 grooves are somewhat parallel and tortuous. The thorax is 

 smooth, with the medial line slightly impressed, and the posterior 

 angles rounded. The elytra are rather convex, with a puncture 

 on each near the shoulder and another towax'ds the apex, and 

 with dimly defined punctured strite over their whole surface. 

 The fore tibise are bidentate externally. 



I have never seen bat one specimen of this insect. It is in 

 the cabinet of the late W. S. MacLeay, Esq. 



5. — Carenum coracinum. 



Nigrum nitidissimum subangustum, capite bisulcato sulcis 

 obliquis, elytris convexis quadripunctatis tenuiter vii'idi- 

 marginatis, tibiis anticis extus bidentatis. 

 Long. 1U| lin., lat. 3 lin. 

 Hab. Ipswich, Queensland. 

 This species is of a brilliant black. The facial grooves are 

 deep and converge towards the front of the head. The base of 

 the thorax is rather broadly margined. The elytra are slightly 

 margined with green, and are twice as long as broad, with two 

 punctures on each, one near the shoulder the other near the base. 

 One specimen of this insect was found by Mr. ]\Iasters, near 

 Ipswich, during last winter. 



The five S})ecies just described belong to the first group in 

 the table of tlie species of Carenum which I have given in page 

 146 of the 2nd part of our Transactions, and as this brings the 

 number of the species in the group up to ten, all in some degree 

 resembling one another, a brief recapitulation of their chief 

 distinctive characters has become almost necessaiy. 



The first 0. quadri])unctatuin from Port Denison, is narrower 



