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sat robustis capiti longitudine vix sequalibus ; capite longi- 

 tudinaliter profimde sulcato, crasse rugose nee crebre 

 pimctiilato ; protliorace quam longiore fere duplo latiore. 

 utrinque carina flexuosa a latere remota instructo, antice 

 quam postice paullo minus dimidio angustiore, ad basin 

 fortiter lobato, crasse confuse nee crebre rugato, crasse 

 obscure punctulato, lateribus antice paullo rotundatis pos- 

 tice subparallelis, angulis posticis obtusis, margine 

 anteriori concave in medio leviter rotundato-producto, 

 disco postice late (nonnullis exemplis vix evidenter) 

 canaliculate ; elytris obscure striatis, striis carinis minutis 

 confertim instructis ; subtus (prosterno crasse fortiter 

 rugato excepto) punctulatus, puncturis antice sat crassis 

 nee crebris postice gradatim subtilioribus crebrioribus 

 notatus. Long. 3f — 4f|-L 

 TMs is a very distinct species ; tbe elytra marked witli a con- 

 siderable number of isolated (but not very sharply defined) 

 small patches of whitish pubescence give it a peculiar appear- 

 ance. 



"Western Australia ; sent to me by E. Meyrick, Esq. AlsO' 

 near Port Lincoln. 



iS'EO SPADES, gen nov. 

 I propose this new generic name for an insect in the South 

 Australian Museum, which is said to be Corcehus chrysopi/gius, 

 Germ., and which, in spite of some slight discrepancies in 

 respect of colour, I have little doubt is that species. It, how- 

 ever, is certainly not a CorcBlus, the carina within the lateral 

 margin of the thorax on either side being continuous to the 

 anterior margin, and straight (as in Cisseis). The tarsi, with 

 strongly compressed joints (those of the posterior legs having 

 the basal joint scarcely longer than the second), distinguish 

 the insect from Cisseis and EtJion, while the strongly transverse 

 scutellum, sharply pointed behind, and absence of tubercles 

 from the head and thorax, prevent its being placed in Discoderes. 

 In respect of the rest of its characters I do not observe any 

 notable difference from Cisseis, except that the claws are 

 strongly bifid, and that only joints five to eleven of the 

 antennas are distinctly dentate. As it is probable that G-er- 

 mar's description of his Corcjehus is not familiar to South Aus- 

 tralian entomologists, the following description of the speci- 

 men on which I found this genus may not be out of place. 

 Minus convexus ; sat angustus ; nitidus ; viridis ; elytrorum 

 dimidia parte apicali aureo-purpurea, fascia angusta aureo- 

 viridi notata ; antennarum articulis 5°-ll° serratis ; capite 

 sat fortiter canaliculate, crebre fortius punctulato, postice 

 longitudmaliter rugato ; prothorace quam longiore fere- 



