BY THE REV. R. L. KING, B.A. H 



considerable hesitation as to the particular group under which 

 some species should be placed. 



La Ferte's first division of the genus is as follows ; — 



Div. 



A. — Thorax without lateral fossa 



a „ strongly contracted posteriorly I. 



b „ slightly contracted posteriorly 



a disk of thorax, flat and transversely 



rounded anteriorly II. 



b' convex disk and regularly globular 



anteriorly III. 



B. — Thorax with latei'al fossa IV. 



Division I. 



Group I. 



Elytra parallel, hardly convex, elongated, very square ante- 

 riorly. Thighs somewhat dilated. Thorax long and bilobed. 



Sp. 17. A. nitidissimus. 



■ Nitidus, subglaber ; capite piceo ; thorace ferragineo, antice 

 rotundato postice valde coarctato ; elytris antice punctatis 

 ad humeros quadratis piceis, fascia pone humeros flava et 

 maculis post medium duabus flaTOScentibus, antennis et 

 pedibus flavis. 



Long. .09. 



Gawler ; South Australia. 



A very elegant species, which I place with some hesitation in 

 La Ferte's first group. The elytra are nob so much elongated as 

 in rhe other species ranged in this group — ^to judge by the descrip- 

 tions. The thorax is somewhat suddenly contracted at the 

 middle, and swells out again towards the base. The humeral 

 fasciae of the elytra are somewhat oblique, in consequence of the 

 triangular piceous mark at the scutellum. It is of a more ferru- 

 gineous yellow than the maculae. The species seems to ap^Droach 

 A. Bodriguii. Latr. 



