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female, concavely excavated on the sides, dilated posteriorly, its 

 hinder apex obtusely angulate, its surface transversely convex. 



Grenus Buchakis, Baly. 



BucHAKis Chapuisii, Breviter ovatus, pube adpressa grisea 

 vestitus, supra cupreus, subtus obscure seneo-niger ; labro, anten- 

 narum articulis quinque basalibus, femoribus anticis, tibiis anticis 

 (basi exceptis) femoribusque intermediis basi et subtus fulvis ; 

 thorace sat fortiter punctate, interstitiis minute granulosis ; ely- 

 tris glabris, distincte punctato-striatis ; interspatiis minute et 

 irregulariter strigosis planis, externis convexis. Long. 1-1-|- lin.' 



Hob. South Australia (Gawler Town, collected by Mr. Odewahn). 



Eyes large, deeply notched, moderately distant in the female, 

 more closely approximating in the male, front between the eyes 

 longitudinally sulcate; five outer joints of antennae black or 

 nigro-piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long at the base, sides 

 rounded and converging from base to apex ; basal margin bi- 

 sinuate on either side, basal lobe entire, subacute, covering the 

 base of the scutellum ; upper surface sparingly clothed with ad- 

 pressed griseous hairs ; distinctly but not very closely punctured, 

 the punctures oblong ; interspaces (seen under a lens) very 

 finely granulose-punctate. Scutellum oblong, its apex subacute. 

 Elytra glabrous, finely but distinctly punctate- striate ; inter- 

 spaces finely and irregularly strigose, plane, two outer ones 

 convex. Pygidium rugose, densely clothed with adpressed hairs. 



Buchakis geanijlosus. Oblongus, supra cupreus, subopacus; 

 labro, mandibulis antennisque basi fulvis, his extrorsum nigro- 

 piceis ; subtus nigro-seneus, nitidus, pedibus cupreis ; thorace 

 granuloso, sat crebre punctate, pube adpressa grisea vestito ; 

 elytris granuloso-strigosis, distincte punctato-striatis, interspatiis 

 planis, externis convexiusculis. Long. I5 lin. 



Hab. "Western Australia, Champion Bay. 



Head clothed with adpressed whitish hairs, granulose, finely 

 punctured, face impressed with a longitudinal groove between 

 the eyes, the latter moderately distant ; seven lower joiuts of 

 antennse fulvous, the rest pitchy black. Thorax twice as broad 

 as long at the base ; sides obliquely converging and moderately 

 rounded from base to apex ; basal lobe slightly reflexed, its apex 

 obtuse ; upper surface sparingly clothed with adpressed hairs, 

 minutely granulose, rather closely covered with deeply-impressed 



