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edging of the elytra, by the larger and sparser punctures on its 
elytra, and by its less transverse prothorax. 
N.S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 
TENEBRIONIDA. 
CESTRINUS. 
C. Championi, sp. nov. Oblongus; piceo-niger, setis brevibus 
adpressis aureis sparsim vestitus; capite minus_brevi, 
fortiter subrugulose punctulato; antennis prothoracem 
superantibus apicem versus leviter incrassatis ; hoc leviter 
transverso, minus crebre (quam caput paullo minus fortiter) 
punctulato, antice arcuato-emarginato quam postice angust- 
iori, postice in medio late leviter lobato, lateribus arcuatis 
postice leviter sinuatis, angulis posticis acute rectis, lati- 
tudine majori ad medium posita; elytris punctulato-striatis, 
puncturis in striis quadratis sat magnis, interstitiis subcon- 
vexis rugulosis ; maris tibiis anticis pone apicem intus late 
leviter emarginatis, tarsis anticis leviter dilatatis. Long., 
541; lat., 2 1. 
Larger than any previously described species of the genus 
except Bidwelli, Hope, which is described as having rows of 
tubercles on the elytra, and therefore must be very distinct. The 
head and prothorax are much less closely punctured than in 
trivialis, Er., the sides of the latter more sinuate behind, the 
seriate punctures of the elytra somewhat coarser. Mr. Champion 
has seen this insect, and cannot identify it with any previously 
described. 
S. Australia ; Morgan. 
C aspersus, sp. nov. Oblongo-ovatus ; sat convexus ; sat opacus ; 
piceus, setis brevibus suberectis (alteris nigris, alteris pallidis) 
vestitus, antennis pedibusque plus minusve rufescentibus ; 
capite rugulose sat crebre punctulato ; antennis prothoracem 
haud superantibus ; hoc fortiter transverso, crasse rugulose 
punctulato, antice minus fortiter arcuato-emarginato quam 
postice angustiori, postice truncato, lateribus sat arcuatis 
postice vix sinuatis, angulis posticis obtusis fere rectis, lati- 
tudine majori mox ante medium posita; elytris punctulato- 
striatis, interstitiis vix convexis rugulosis. Long., 24—311.; 
lat., 14—1,3, 1. 
IT do not observe any well marked sexual characters in the 
examples of this species that have come under my notice. The 
presence of setze of two colors vaguely intermingled gives the 
elytra a speckled appearance. This is the species referred to by 
Mr. Champion (Tr. Ent. Soc., 1894, p. 356) as closely allied to his 
C. brevis. | 
S. Australia. 
