184 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



extends to the base in the centre. Elytra finely striate in pairs, 

 with the interstices flat and smooth, and with a few minute 

 elongate tubercles on the alternate interstices. Legs piceous. 



In one specimen before me there are no traces of tubercles on 

 the elytra. 



352. — Aphodids liyidus, Oliv. Ent., I. 3, page 86, 

 t.26,f. 222, ^"c. ^"c. 



cincticulus Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loncl. IV., 

 1847, page 284, 8. Australia, 

 spilopterus Germ. Linn. Ent. III., 1848, page 

 189, jS. Australia. 



353. — Amm(ecius obscurus. n. sp. 

 Length 2 lines. 



Brownish black, opaque, densely punctate, and somewhat 

 squamose. Head slightly but broadly emarginate in front. 

 Thorax transverse, almost truncate at the apex, nearly parallel 

 and bisinuated at the sides, and slightly rounded at the base, with 

 the anterior angles large and slightly reflexed, and the posterior 

 obtusely pointed backwards. Elytra striate, with the striae large 

 and filled with shallow punctures, and with the interstices narrow 

 and costiform. 



In one specimen of this insect before me, the thorax has on 

 each side two abbreviated transverse depressions. 



354.— Ammcecius ceenatipennis, n. sp. 

 Length 1^ lines. 

 Black, densely punctate, subopaque. Head broadly rounded 

 and emarginate in front. Thorax transverse, and rounded at the 

 base, with the sides subparallel, the anterior angles somewhat 

 dilated, the posterior not prominent, and the median line slightly 

 marked at the base. Elytra punctato-striate, the punctures large 

 and giving a crenelated appearance to the costiform interstices. 



356. — Amm(ecius semicoenutus. n. sp. 

 Length 1| lines. 

 Black, subnitid. Head marked with very fine longitudinal 



