Australian Coleoptera. 547 



rectis) postice subito rotuudato-angustatis ; angulis posticis 



lobato. Scutello nigro, la^vi, semicirculari. Elytris 

 thorace paido lationbus, quadraplo longioribus, ad hLl 

 10s rotunda IS, sat crebre fortiter pnnctatis (apice la3vi): 

 latenbus sub-pamUehs, apicem versus angustatis; sino-,dis 

 ad apicem spina parvd armatis. Corpore subtus nrgro, 

 isevx ; pectoris latenbus punctatis. 

 Long. 11 lin. ; lat. 51 lin. 



The elytra are green, inclined to aeneous at the idos- 

 terior margin, with a broad obhque purple stripe com- 

 mencing at the shoulder, and reaching the suture at the 

 posterior two-thirds. 



Hab. — Australia. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Note.— Cyphaleus cupricollis, MacLeay, Trans. Ent. 

 hoc, N. S. Wales, ii., p. 287. 



In the British Museum there is an insect which I have 

 no doubt must be referred to this species, Mr. MacLeay is 

 mistaken, however, in describing the anterior angles of 

 the thorax as obtuse; they are shghtly acute, although not 

 prolonged as in many species of theii- group. I beheve 

 the species is better placed in the genus Prophanes. 



Platyphanes obloru/us, sp. nov. 



Oblongus, convexus, nitidus, supra renescens, sulitus 

 niger ; thorace transverso, crebre punctulato, angulis 

 anticis breviter productis ; elytris striato-punctatis. 



Long. 11 lin. ; lat. 5| lin. 



Head somewhat flattened, thickly, evenly and distinctly 

 punctured all over ; clypeus straight in fi-ont, obliquely 

 truncated at the anterior angles, which are slightly rcflcxcd. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as the head, gently con- 

 vex, moderately, thickly and distinctly punctured on the 

 disk, but finely towards the margins, which are incrassate 

 and slightly reflexed, semicircularly emarginate in front ; 

 the anterior angles prominent, blunt and slightly directed 

 outwards; the sides are gently rounded; the posterior 

 angles rectangular ; the posterior margin is strongly lobcd 

 over the scutellum. The elytra are a little broader than 

 the thorax, of a more distinctly a?neous colour, three and 

 a half times as long as the thorax, with the sides nearly 

 parallel, acuminate posteriorly; each elytron with ten lines 



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