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reliquuin capitis, basi sumnia excepta) punctulato, carina 

 clypeali minus elevata recta haud tuberculata, lateribus sat 

 fortiter sinuatis ; prothorace quam longiori paullo plus quam 

 sesquilatiori, sparsim obsolete punctulato, antice vix im- 

 presso, basi inarginata quam apex (hoc in medio tuberculato) 

 fere duplo latiori, angulis anticis parum prominulis posticis 

 rotundatis ; scutello lsevi vel fere lpevi ; elytris (stria sub- 

 suturali excepta) fere lsevibus, striis punctulatis postice ab- 

 breviatis 2 vel 3 vix manifestis impressis ; propygidio 

 stridulationis organis instructo (his rugis numerosis minus 

 elevatis compositis) ; pygidio sat crebre punctulato, partibus 

 mecliana et postica fere lrevibus ; tibiis anticis extus sat for- 

 titer tridentatis ; tarsorum unguiculis simplicibus. 

 Fern, latet. Long., 5-6 1. ; lat., 3-3 \ 1. 



A very distinct species that should stand in my tabulation 

 (Tr. R.S. S.A., 1896, p. 237) beside pecuarius from which how- 

 ever it differs by many characters — inter alia the very fine and 

 very sparse puncturation of its prothorax the elytra almost 

 devoid of sculpture outside the subsutural stria, and the clypeus 

 (as in Australasia?, terrce-regince, and the species I take to be 

 curtus, Burm., and laticollis, Burm.) not produced laterally in an 

 angular projection protruding beyond the contour of the eyes. 

 W.A. ; Gerald ton ; sent by Mr. Lea. 



ASEMANTUS. 



A. Leai, sp. nov. Minus latus, vix subovatus ; nitidus ; piceus 

 (nonnullis exemplis plus minusve rufescentibus), subtus et 

 in pedibus fulvo-hirtus ; sat convexus ; capite transversim 

 sat crebre rugato, vix tuberculato, clypeo antice parum 

 reflexo, carina inter frontem et clypeum modice distincta ; 

 prothorace quam longiori paullo minus quam sesquilatiori, 

 postice quam antice ut 1|- (vix) ad 1 latiori, antice excava- 

 tione parva leviter impressa (hac intus sat fortiter punctu- 

 lata) et postice canaliculata (canali ut excavatio antica 

 punctulato), subtilissime (antice crebrius postice sparsim) 

 punctulato, lateribus minus rotundatis, angulis anticis acutis 

 minus productis posticis obtusis ; scutello fere Irevi ; elytris 

 minus subtiliter sed sat leviter punctulatis, puncturis ut 

 series 8 geminatim dispositis, interstitiis vix vel leviter con- 

 vexis inter serierum paria ut series (sed confuse sparsim) 

 punctulatis, parte apicali confuse crebre punctulata ; tarsis 

 sat gracilibus minus brevibus ; pygidio plus minusve crebre 

 (parte mediano-apicali quam cetera? minus crebre punctu- 

 lata vel Isevi) punctulato. 

 Maris pygidio quam femime multo magis gibbo, tarsis pos- 

 terioribus magis elongatis, unguiculis anticis imequalibus. 



