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gently backward and very strongly forward from the 

 front of the forehead. The width of the thorax is to 

 the length as seven to four and a half, and its posterior 

 angles, though very little marked, are not quite rounded 

 off. The surface of the elytra is slightly dulled by an exces- 

 sively fine system of puncturation, which becomes visible under 

 a strong lens, and it is traversed longitudinally by a series of 

 about half a dozen fine wavy scratches or wrinkles ; there are 

 also some short transverse wrinkles, especially about the 

 middle of the disc ; the length of the elytra is considerably 

 more than twice that of the thorax, and the thickened humeral 

 portion is erect ; on the anterior tibiae the exterior ridge has 

 (above the apical two large teeth) four smaller ones, of which 

 the lowest is entirely visible when the tibiae is looked at from 

 perpendicularly above its upper surface, and the topmost is 

 more strongly marked than is usual in the genus ; on the in- 

 ferior ridge there are nine strong teeth, which commence so 

 close to the front of the apical plate that the anterior projec- 

 tion of the plate appears to be merely one of the series of teeth, 

 which thus seem to number ten. 



I possess a single specimen ; it is from Fowler's Bay. 



C. cupreo -marginatum, sp. nov. Nitidum ; Iseve ; nigrum ; 

 elytris obscure cupreo-marginatis ; capite sat transverse, 

 sulcis longitudinalibus parallelis antice vix evidenter im- 

 pressis ; antennis gracilibus ; prothorace fere duplo latiore 

 quam longiore, marginato, canaliculate, basi leviter biim- 

 presso, pone medium quam antice latiori, antice late emar- 

 ginato, postice sat anguste lobato, angulis posticis rotun- 

 datis ; elytris ovatis, prothorace angustioribus, antice 

 j)aulo angustatis vix excavatis, marginatis, obsolete subtiliter 

 seriatim punctulatis, punctis 2 subapicalibus majoribus in- 

 structis, humeris reflexis vix prominulis ; tibiis anticis tri- 

 dentatis ; subtus nigrum. Long., 22 mm. ; lat., 8-3- mm. 



This is another very distinct species, which Mr. Macleay 

 would probably place in his new genus Calliscapterus, although 

 the width of the elytra in front give it a facies very different 

 from that of C. Odeioahii, Cast., &c. Its colour is peculiar, the 

 black of the upper surface having a slight coppery tone (which 

 becomes quite well defined in the rather broad marginal fur- 

 rows of the elytra, much less on the thoracic margins) very 

 different from the genuine black of the underside. The frontal 

 furrows commence a little in front of the level of the back of the 

 eye, and run forward parallel to each other to about the usual dis- 

 tance from the labrum, but the portion diverging apically is very 

 faint. A faintly-impressed transverse groove runs completely 

 across the back of the head. The width of the thorax is very 



