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striis latera versus obsolebis (subsuturali profunda ad basin 

 continua), interstitiis sat angustis sat planis (sed 2° mani- 

 feste, 3° vix, antice convexis). Long., If 1.; lat., f 1. 



There are about eleven puncbulate striae on each elytron, out- 

 side of which the sculpture becomes vague and the puncturation 

 scarcely seriate, — the external of the eleven striae becoming suc- 

 cessively feeble. The evident convexity of the second interstice 

 a little behind the base is suggestive of C. depressa, Grouv., from 

 which the present species differs inter alia multa by the very 

 much coarser puncturation of its head and pronotum, the absence 

 of a defined keel on the pronotum, the much stronger elytral 

 striae, the continuity to the base of the subsutural stria, and the 

 very slight convexity of the second elytral interstice. The elytral 

 interstices in general though nearly flat are less decidedly so than 

 in depressa. The red common triaagle on the elytra has its base 

 on the base of the elytra and its apex about the middle of the 

 suture. 



Victoria (Dividing Range and Alps). 



C suhnigella, sp. nov. Ovata, postice 'sat fortiter angustata ; 

 minus depressa; satnitida; pubescens ; supra nigra, nonnul- 

 lorum exemplorum prothoracis lateribus et elytrorum apice 

 summo subrufescentibus, corpore subtus piceo, antennis 

 mandibulis pedibusque rufis ; capite pronotoque sat grosse 

 sat crebre punctulatis ; epistomo leviter biimpresso ; pro- 

 thorace fortiter transverso, antice angustato, lateribus 

 arcuatis vix reflexo-marginatis, angulis posticis (superne 

 visis) retrorsum inclinatis sat acutis, disco longitudinaliter 

 carinato ; elytris ad apicem truncatis, sat fortiter punctulato- 

 striatis, striis latera versus bene definitis sed in parte 

 humerali obsoletis (subsuturali profunda ad basin continua), 

 interstitiis angustis subcariniformibus. Long., l^- 1.; lat., 



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Agrees with the preceding in the presence on its elytra of a 

 strong entire subsutural stria. There are about 14 striae on the 

 elytra of this species in front (with a wide non-striate but 

 strongly punctulate interval between the ele/enth and twelfth 

 striae), — those near the suture and lateral margins being the most 

 strongly impressed; only about 12 stria3 cross the middle of the 

 elytra, the second, third and fourth becoming obsolete about the 

 middle, and the (in front broad) interval between the eleventh 

 and twelfth striae narrowing behind into an additional stria. Of 

 the interstices the first in its front part is the most strongly 

 cariniform, the second, third, and fourth are decidedly thouc^h 

 very finely cariniform, the fifth and eleventh indistinctly (except 

 from certain points of view) and extremely finely cariniform, the 



