BY W. MACLEAY, ESQ., F.L.S. I85 



punctures, with the clypeus deeply emarginate and of a reddish 

 colour, and with the back of the head on each side furnished with 

 a very minute tubercle or tuberosity, which is extended in a 

 raised line to the lateral border. Thorax transverse, and not 

 densely punctate, with a large shallow depression near the sides, 

 with all the angles rounded, and with the median line distinct at 

 the base. Elytra strongly punctato-striate, with the interstices 

 elevated and smooth. Legs piceous. 



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

 Length 1| lines. 



Piceous black, nitid. Head almost smooth, reddish in front 

 and emarginate. Thorax transverse, almost smooth in front and 

 thinly punctate behind, with the anterior angles rounded, the 

 posterior square, and the base very slightly rounded. Elytra 

 strongly punctato-striate, with the interstices bi'oad, elevated and 

 smooth. 



357. BOLBOCBRAS GrATNDAHENSB. n. Sp. 



Length 5| lines. 



Reddish chesnut, nitid. Head with a small short transverse 

 ridge in the centre of the occiput elevated at each end into a 

 minute tubercle, and with the forehead depressed, punctate, and 

 enclosed on the sides and in front by a narrow ridge, which is 

 elevated in the middle in front into a minute horn, from which 

 horn two elevated lines extend in a diagonal direction to an an- 

 terior short transverse ridge. Thorax sparsely punctate, with a 

 large round excavation in the middle of the front. Elytra 

 punctato-striate, the punctures minute. Body beneath densely 

 fulvous pilose. 



There are only two specimens in the collection, both evidently 

 females. 



358.— Trox suBCARiNATus, McLeay, W. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, I., page 128. 



