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at tlie apex) is peculicar. At tlie base of eacli elytrou close to tlie 

 scutellum a strong costa commences edged externally by a kind 

 of stria, bnt both soon become obsolete, the stria being repre- 

 sented in the hinder three-quarters of the elytra by a scarcely 

 traceable row of punctures ; then follow at intervals three 

 costje, which at the base are about equally strong with the ab- 

 breviated costa, and run evenly to the apex ; outside the last 

 of these (which commences at the shoulder) on the lateral 

 declivous surface of the elytra are some more obscure slender 

 costfe. The intervals between the costse are non-striate, wide, 

 and shining, and are devoid of puuctures excepting that a faint 

 ill-defined row of punctures can be traced quite close to each 

 costa. 



I have seen only a few specimens of this insect, which occurs 

 rarely under Eucalyptus bark near Port Lincoln, but probably 

 a long series would show great variety in respect of size. 



JB. r if tat us, Newm. I am not sure whether I know this 

 species, of which I have not seen the original description, Mr. 

 Pascoe, however (in the paper on " Bothrideres," already re- 

 ferred to), tabulates it as having on the pro thorax a broad 

 shallow depression more or less raised along the median line, 

 and on the elytra a dark sutural stripe ; and in distinguishing 

 from it some of his own species he appears to intimate that it 

 has the elytra (at least near the suture) punctate-striate. A 

 common and widelj^ distributed South Australian Bothrideres 

 presents the above characters, and I should consider it almost 

 certainly B. vittatus, except that it has the side of the thorax 

 very strongly angulated in the middle, a character that I can 

 hardly suppose Mr. Pascoe would have failed to refer to if it 

 were present in jS'ewman's type, B. vittatus is said to be a 

 Victorian insect. 



CUCUJIDiE. 



CRTPTAMOEPHA. 



C. Lindi, sp, nov. Minus elongata ; sparsim longe pubescens ; 

 rufo vel brunneo-testacea ; capite sparsim crasse obscure 

 punctulato ; prothorace quam latiori hand longiori, con- 

 fertim fortiter punctulato ; elytris sat fortiter punctulato- 

 striatis, transversim obscure pone medium infuscatis. 

 Long, 1|1., lat. -1-1. 

 The head is very shining, with some sparse and lightly- 

 impressed but coarse puncturation ; a strongly impressed line 

 extends from the origin of the antenna^ to the base, and a 

 smaller oblique furrow runs towards the eye. The length and 

 width of the thorax are equal, and it is scarcely narrowed 

 behind ; the sides are almost parallel nearly to the base, whence 

 they converge gently ; they are set with about six long hairs 



