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thorax (scarcely greater than in C. punctatissimus, Pasc.) and 
the very slight narrowing of the front part of that segment, in 
which again it resembles punctatissimus, but it is of very much 
broader and less fragile-looking form than that species, and its 
prothorax is very much more strongly transverse and its elytral 
strise are very much more coarsely and less closely punctulate. 
C. angustior also has a prothorax with feebly arcuate sides, but 
it is much less transverse than that of C. minor, and is at its 
widest in the middle. The unique type of this species seems to 
be a female. 
Victoria. 
HOPATRUM. 
H. Meyricki, sp. nov. Ovale; sat opacum; fuscum, setulis 
minutis albidis sat crebre vestitum ; capite sat lato, crebre 
subtilius subrugulose punctulato, clypeo a fronte sulco vix 
manifesto diviso antice profunde triangulariter emarginato, 
ad latera sat fortiter (fere ut H. Walkeri, Champ.) producto ; 
oculis nullo modo divisis; antennis brevibus, prothoracis 
basin haud attingentibus, articulis 8-10 transversis; pro- 
thorace quam longiori plus quam duplo latiori, ut caput 
punctulato, ad latera explanato (quam H. Walkerz paullo 
minus late), antice profunde emarginato, postice bisinuato, 
lateribus modice arcuatis postice nullo modo sinuatis, 
angulis omnibus acutis, latitudine majori ad basin posita ; 
scutello ut prothorax punctulato; elytris quam prothorax 
parum latioribus, striatis, striis parum distincte punctulatis, 
interstitiis fere planis crebre subtilissime granulatis, setulis 
in interstitiis inequaliter 4-seriatim dispositis ; tibiis anticis 
sat brevibus a basi ad apicem sat fortiter dilatatis, angulo 
externo apicali acuto ; tarsis setis sat crassis subtus sparsim 
vestitis. Long., 52 ].; lat., 24 1. 
This is a fairly well marked species. It is distinguished from 
all its described Australian congeners by its large size, also from 
the species of the group of H. diverswm, Champion, by the 
deeply emarginate front margin of its prothorax, from H. torridum 
and Walker by the sides of its prothorax not at all sinuous 
behind the middle. 
W. Australia ; taken by E. Meyrick, Esq. 
H. Carpentaria, sp. nov. Ovale; sat opacum ; nigrum vel piceo- 
nigrum, setulis obscure brunneis sat crebre vestitum ; capite 
sat lato, crebre ruguloso, clypeo a fronte sulco sat profundo 
diviso antice profunde triangulariter emarginato, ad latera 
sat fortiter (fere ut H. Walkeri, Champ.) producto ; oculis 
nullo modo divisis ; antennis sat brevibus, prothoracis basin 
vix attingentibus, articulis 8-10 transversis; prothorace 
