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fortiter minus crebre punctulato, utrinque ad basin sulco 

 elongate longitudinali impresso, antice leviter emarginato, 

 angulis posticis obtusis, latitudine majori vix ante medium 

 sita, lateribus sat arcuatis anguste (postice magis late) 

 reflexis ; elytris fortiter striatis, striis crenulatis, stria 

 abbreviata scutellari nulla, interstitiis sat anguste sat fortiter 

 convexis (3° ante medium punctura instruct©). Long., 4 1.; 

 lat., 111. 

 Difters from all other Australian Loxandri known to me or 

 which I can ascertain to have been described, by the evident 

 reflexed margin of its pronotum (the furrow of which is some- 

 what rugulose) and by the strong puncturation across the base of 

 that segment. Feronia [Pcecilus) rufilahris, Cast., seems to be a 

 Loxandrus, and is said to have its prothorax " punctated" 

 behind, but the prothorax of that species is said to be broader 

 in front than behind, and there is no indication of any unusual 

 character in the lateral margin. 

 N. Queensland. 



NITIDULID^. 



OMOSITA. 



0. discoidea, Er. I have before me specimens of this insect 

 taken in Tasmania by Mr. Griffith. I believe it has not been 

 hitherto recorded as Australian. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



COPTODACTYLA. 



C. glabricoUis, Hope. This name was associated by its autho- 

 with a very brief description of a specimen (which was evidently 

 a female) from Port Essington, on the north coast of Australia. 

 Harold (Ann. Mus. Gen., 1877, p. 39) furnishes a full descrip- 

 tion of both sexes of a species which he considers to be that of 

 Hope. It is unfortunate that he states neither the ground of his 

 identification nor the locality where his specimens were taken. 

 It is to be noted that the size he attributes to the insect (15-16 

 mm.) is much greater than that quoted by Hope (5 1.). I 

 believe, however, that the identification is correct. I have 

 before me a long series of specimens of Coptodactyla from various 

 localities in Northern Australia (including some from near the 

 original locality) which I regard as appertaining to one very 

 variable species ; and among them are some certainly identical 

 with those described by Harold. None of these examples, how- 

 ever, are quite so small as Hope's measurements, or quite so 

 large as Harold's. They vary in color from red-brown to deep 

 black ; in size from 5 J 1. to 1^ 1., and also very greatly in the 

 development of the frontal horn in the male, which in some 



