602 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 



piceis, his piceis ; tarsorum art. 3 tio simplici. Subtus 

 profunde, parce, et grosse punctatum. 



Long. corp. lin. 2. 



Habitat in Tasmania ; communicavit Dom. Pascoe. 



(Obs. Inter Pentarthra distinctum corpore magno, 

 tamen angustulo, convexo, nigro, et grosse sculpturato, 

 prothorace antice vix constricto, elytrisque ad basin undu- 

 latim truncatis, interstitiis convexis subcostiformibus.) 



Genus 14. SEEICOTROGUS. 

 Wollaston (vide, ante, p. 446). 

 Sericotrogus sub&nescens, n. sp. 



S. angustus, elongate subparallelo-fusiformis, subasneo- 

 piceus, nitidiusculus, pubeque grossa demissa subasneo- 

 cinerea parce vestitus ; capite prothoraceque profunde punc- 

 tatis, illo valde exserto (rostro longiusculo, arcuato, dense 

 ruguloso-punctulato, oculis prominentibus), hoc subovali, 

 convexo, ad latera subasqualiter rotundato, antice fere in- 

 tegro, necnon in linea media sublseviore ; elytris longe 

 fusiformibus basi truncatis (sc. antice sensim angustioribus), 

 leviter punctato-striatis ; antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis 

 (illis tarsisque clarioribus), capitulo ferrugineo. Subtus 

 subalutaceus, parcissime et minutius pubescens, antice 

 vix punctatus, sed in meso- et meta-sternis abdominisque 

 segm. tls l mo et 2 do valde profunde grosseque punctatus. 



Long. corp. lin. 1^ 1-J. 



Habitat Nov. Zealandiam, ab Auckland missus ; a 

 D. Sharp amice donatus, necnon in coll. Dom. Lawson. 



Genus 15. STENOTRUPIS. 

 Wollaston (vide, ante, p. 447). 

 Stenotrupis crassifrons, n. sp. 



S. angustissimus, parallelus, depressus, subnitidus, piceus ; 

 capite prothoraceque dense et argute punctulatis, illo elon- 

 gato-ovali crasso valde exserto, hoc ovato-triangulari an- 

 tice gradatim valde angustato et pone apicem vix con- 

 stricto ; elytris parallelis, ad apicem minute pubescentibus, 

 tenuiter punctulato- (aut fere crenulato-) striatis, inter- 

 stitiis transversim subreticulato-rugatis ; antennis piceo- 

 ferrngineis ; pedibus rufo-piceis. 



