208 Mr. Francia P. Pascoe on 



attingentes. Scopus elongatus, clavatus ; fumculus 7-ar- 

 ticulatus_, articulo priino longiusculo, valido, secundo 

 miuore, obconico, caeteris lenticularibus ; clava magna, 

 distincta, obsolete articulata. OcvU laterales, rotundati, 

 subtenuiter graiiulati, Proihorax parura convexus, antice 

 brevitor tubulatus, utrinque rotuBdatus, basi bisinuatus, 

 lobisocularibusnullis. Snitcllum^y^TWxvo.. Elytra oh\ongeb, 

 inodice convoxa, protliorace vix latiora. Pedes breves; 

 femora valida, coin]:)ressa, niutica; ti'hice recta3j incrmes, 

 angulo interno deiititbrme; tarsi sub-angusti, articulo 

 ultimo longiusculo ; unguiculi tenues, liberi. Mesostermim 

 laminatum. Processus intercoxalis latus, antice truncatus. 

 Abdomen segmento secundo duobus sequentibus conjunc- 

 tim breviore. 



The pectoral canal is as in Sympiezoscelus,* Waterh. 

 (near which I have no hesitation in placing this genus) , 

 only that the mesosternum at the end of the canal is raised 

 into a short ridge or plate. 



Bepharus ellipticus. 



B. ellipticus, fusco-castaneus, glaber, nitidus; rostro 

 prothorace breviore, impunctato, basi inter oculos trans- 

 versim sulcato ; prothorace antice vage punctate, postice 

 medio trifoveolato, basi transversim excavate; elytris 

 tenuiter sulcatis, sulcis punctis sat niagnis impressis, 

 apicem versus utrinque paulo excavate, apice ipso 

 subtruncato. 



Long. I5 lin. 



Hah. — Queensland. 



Ampagia, n. 



g- 



nostrum breviusculura, depreasum; scrohes profundae, 

 sub-basales, oculos attingentes. Scapvs brevis, gradatim 

 incrassatus; funicidus 7-articulatus, articulo prime longi- 

 usculo, valido, secundo multo minorc, obconico, caeteris 

 valde transversis, successive crassioribus ; clava. adnata, 

 breviter ovata, obsolete articulata. Oc^iIi rotundati, latera- 

 les, grosse granulati. Protlwrax conicus, longior quam 

 latus, basi subtruncatus, lobis ocularibus nuUis. Scu- 

 tellum caret. Elytra convexa, ovata, basi baud protho- 



* This iusect is, without donht, from Queensland ; Mr. Waterhouse was 

 uncertain whether it was from Australia or New Zealand. 



