almost levigate interstices of its elytra. The long hairs on 
its surface are very few and far between, and need looking for. 
The crenulations of the sides of the prothorax are very feeble. 
N.S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 
SEIROTRANA. 
S. major, sp. nov. Oblongo-ovalis; sat convexa; sat nitida ; 
enea ; prothorace sat dense longitudinaliter strigoso et 
fortiter punctulato, antice sat fortiter emarginato, lateribus 
fortiter rotundatis postice coarctatis; elytris lineis 4 in- 
terruptis elevatis instructis, interstitiis biseriatim fortiter 
punctulatis et tuberculis parvis nonnullis instructis. Long., 
Ol ela tveded: 
Very like 8. catenulata, Boisd., but much larger, of a bright 
(almost nitid) brassy colour, decidedly convex in form, with the 
prothorax less strongly emarginate in front, the surface of the 
same marked with less closely-placed elevated lines, leaving the 
puncturation much more conspicuous, and the sides more strongly 
rounded and less strongly toothed, and the interstices of the elytra 
with larger punctures in the geminate series with sinall pustules 
(not placed in regular order one in front of each puncture but) 
very sparingly placed at distant intervals. The hind angles of 
the prothorax are considerably less sharply defined than in 
S. catenulata. The other large species described differ from this 
insect, inter alia, in having the sides of their prothorax entire. 
The basal four joints of the front tarsi in the example before 
me are all strongly transverse. 
N.S. Wales ; taken near Tamworth by Mr. Musson. 
MELOID As. 
HOPLOZONITIS (gen. nov.) 
A Zoniti diftert palpis multo magis robustis ; capite sat brevi ; 
antennis (? maris solius) prothoracis basin haud multo 
superantibus femoribus posticis (? maris solius) valde incras- 
satis, subtus fortiter 4-dentatis et ad tibiarum receptionem 
sulcatis, tibiis posticis valde compressis et curvatis ; unguic- 
ulorum lobo superiori in parte basali sola denticulato, lobo 
inferiori pergracili subclavato. 
The heteromerous tarsi, bifid claws and head divided from the 
prothorax by a distinct neck, place this genus in the Meloide; 
its elongate metasternum, normal maxille, clypeus produced 
beyond the insertion of the antenz, elytra reaching the apex 
of the abdomen, nonclavate antenne, claws denticulate along the 
basal part of their superior lobe and oval apical joint of the 
palpi associate it with Zonztis, from which it is at once dis- 
