300 Mr. A. G. Butler's descriptions of several 



Head shining, rugose in front, smooth, with a few scat- 

 tered coarse punctures towards the back, regularly and 

 rather broadly sinuated behind ; nuchal plate moderately 

 long, smooth, with a series of rather coarse punctures 

 along the anterior margin ; dorsal segment smooth and 

 shining, their anterior portions densely covered with coarse 

 but very shallow puncjtiu'es ; .first dorsal segment with 

 scarcely a trace of lateral lamincE^ but with coarse suh- 

 marginal jmnciures and a stronc]ly -defined marginal ridge ; 

 second to eleventh segments with the anterior portion of 

 their lateral wings finely and densely punctured, and with 

 a distinct marginal rim ; terminal segment with its pos- 

 terior third slightlg compressed, so as to form a rounded 

 pirojecting central point, which gives the profile outline a 

 distinctly angular appearance, also sparsely and finely 

 punctured ; marginal rim linear. 



Length 1 inch, 3 lines ; width 8 lines. 



Rockhampton, Queensland. (Two examples, dry and 

 in spirits.) 



General aspect of the enlarged figure of S. convexum, 

 as given by Dr. Koch (Die MjTiapoden, tab. xiv. fig. 27), 

 but much redder; the lateral laminge of the first dorsal 

 segment reduced to a minimum, the head smoother, the 

 front of the nuchal plate less angular, and the last dorsal 

 segment with distinctly angular profile outline. 



Sph(Brotherium lamprinum, n. sp. 



Dark reddish olivaceous; under surface, legs, antenna 

 and eyes greenish; front of head blackish; anterior bor- 

 ders of the dorsal segments and a few scattered irregular 

 blotches rather paler than the ground-colour. 



Brilliantly polished ; head rugose in front, coarsely and 

 sparsely punctured towards the back ; deeply sinuated 

 behind, with the anterior edge of the sinuation bracket- 

 shaped; nuchal plate short, smooth, slightly depressed in 

 the centre; first dorsal segment with broad and thin 

 laminre, having a thick anterior marginal ridge; second 

 to eleventh segments ivith the anterior margins of their 

 lateral wings very oblique, with distinct terminal or 

 apical rims; last segment unusually oblique, with linear 

 marginal rim. 



Length 10 lines ; width 5 lines. 



Fianarantsoa, Madagascar (Rev. W. D. Cowan). 



Differs from medium-sized examples of »S'. nep)tunus in 



