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modo) transverso ; prothorace quam longiori parum latiori, 

 subcylindrico, obscure punctulato, ad latera minus ruguloso ; 

 elytris crassissime cancellato-punctulatis, puncturis in tertia 

 partia apicali subobsoletis, interstitiis alternis postice forbiter 

 carinatis ; femoribus posticis sat gracilibus sat elongatis. 

 Long., 12 1.; lat., 3Al. 



This species cannot be far removed from the preceding one, 

 wliich it resembles in the prothorax being only a little tumid 

 laterally behind the middle, and in the hind femora being 

 more slender and elongate (though not nearly so much in this 

 species) than in N. porcata and others. The elytra are sculptured 

 almost exactly as in N. semicostata, Blackb., but are very much 

 less dilated behind the middle than in that species (which more- 

 over has much shorter hind femora and straight intermediate 

 tibiae, smaller and more prominent eyes, shorter tarsi, ifec). In 

 the example before me the longitudinal channel on the prothorax 

 is very short indeed, but (judging from other species) it is pro- 

 bably variable. The ventral segments are very like those of 

 H. semicostata, the middle of the second and third being opaque 

 through the presence of very close minute puncturation (in this 

 species, however, not pubescent, as in semicostata), and the apex 

 of the fifth being distinctly bisinuate. The front and middle 

 tibiie are strongly curved, the hind tibise straight. 



McDonnell Ranges, Central Australia ; taken by Mr. A. S. 

 Wild. 



N. constricta, sp. nov. Minus angusta ; parum convexa ; pilis 

 sat longis erectis dense vestita ; elytris ad basin quam pro- 

 thorax sat angustioribus postice fortiter dilatatis; ferruginea; 

 capite, prothorace, femorum parte media, sternis, et abdominis 

 lateribus plus minus infuscatis ; elytris postice rotundatis, 

 puncturis quadratis sat magnis seriatim instructis, inter- 

 stitiis alternis sat fortiter elevatis. Long., 6 1. ; lat., 2 1 



The head and prothorax are closely covered with fine punctura- 

 tion with more sparse and much coarser punctures intermingled, 

 the sides of the latter not very coarsely rugulose ; the sculpture of 

 the prothorax is in all respects very similar to that of iY. porcata, 

 Fab., but the segment is shorter, its length and width being 

 equal. The extreme narrowness of the elytra at the base (where 

 they are only about seven-tenths of their width near the apex and 

 are decidedly narrower than the prothorax) at once separates this 

 little species from its described congeners. The front and inter- 

 mediate tibia? are strongly arched. 



Central Australia. 



iV. inconspicua, sp. nov. Elongata ; sat convexa ; postice parum 

 dilatata ; pilis longis erectis dense vestita ; ferruginea, 



