98 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Cocn River specimen is 28 mm., and the t\\w of P. lirtor still smaller — "12 lines"; 

 lilit e\en "greater differences in lentjth than these are common in closely allied 

 genera. The Coen River specimen has luimerous transverse impressions on the 

 hind part of the .scape, but not in front, and possibly on the type of Victor the 

 impressions were more or less concealed b\' tiie clothing. 



PROTEMNEMUS Thomson. 



Syst. (,'eranib.. p. Si. Fasc. Trans. Knt. Soc. Lond.. iii (3rd Ser. ). ]). 2S0. 



This genus is very close to Pcriaptodrs. from which it differs in the flat 

 elytra, with al)riiptly \'ertical sides, about the summit of which arc numerous 

 small jiointed tu])ercles. 



PROTEMNEMUS TRIMACULATUS sp. nov. 

 I'late i-x, fig. N. 



Black. Densely clothed with \ery short, depressed, greyish-brown pubes- 

 cence ; with scattered whitish setae, more numerous on the under-surface and legs 

 than elsewhere, and often arising from small nude spots or feeble granules; with 

 a velvety brown subtriangular i)atch of pubescence about scutellum. and an irre- 

 gular patch of similar pubescence on each side of rlisc at about the apical third, 

 each patch sharplv Ijounded on its inner e<lge. but outwardly obscurely amal- 

 gamating with somewhat lighter pubescence on the \ertical sides. 



Head with feeble granules; with a narrow median line from li]> to base. 

 .Antennae passing elytra froin al)0iu the sixth joint, first joint trans\erselv im- 

 pressed posteriorly, and with numerous granules, third joint also granulate and 

 nnich longer than first and second combined, fotn-tb to tenth decreasing in length, 

 eleventh much longer than tenth. Piolhora.v feebly transverse, at apex scarcely 

 wider than head, sides strongly armed, with a small, nude, elongate-oval space in 

 middle, a small subconical partially concealed tubercle near it on each side, and 

 with sc\cr;il patches of small granules. Scutclliini curvilinearlv triangular, de- 

 pressed along middle. FJytfa much wider than jirothorax. with a small acute 

 spine on each shoulder and a larger one on each side of apex ; a row of sm.'ill 

 tubercles or spines marking the summit of the lateral decli\ilv on each elytron, 

 commencing with the s])inc on each shoulder and ending at the subapical patch, 

 a row of similar spines slightly below and parallel with the sunnnit. and a few 

 s])ines scattered irregularly on the disc; with rather dense but more or less con- 

 (■c.aled ])unctures. I-Cj/s long and thin. Length, 38 mm. 



Hah. Oueensland : Coen Ki\er ( W". 1). Dodd). T\])e (uni(|uel, \.(^J(^~,. 



Readily distinguished from the three species described ])y I'ascoe. in I.ongi- 

 cornia Malayan;! (P. scahrcsus. P. !ii:ia. .and P. pristis} bv the conspicuous, tri- 



