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the base as long; sides rounded and converging from base to 

 apex, hinder angles produced posteriorly, acute ; basal margin 

 bisinuate on either side, median lobe acute, its apex finely notched ; 

 above convex, smooth and shining, rather remotely impressed 

 with minute punctures only visible under a lens. Scutellum 

 ovate, acuminate at base and apex. Elytra finely punctate-striate, 

 tlie striae on the outer margin rather more strongly punctured 

 and slightly sulcate ; interspaces plane, impunctate, those on 

 the outer margin convex. Pygidium rugose-punctate, sparingly 

 clothed with adpressed hairs. Prosternum rather longer than 

 broad in the male ; in the female slightly transverse. 



Family EIJMOLPID^. 



Genus Terillus, Chap. 



Terillus foveolatus. Elougatus, convexus, cupreus, nitidus ; 

 pedibus antenuisque fulvis, harum articulo ultimo nigro, labro 

 flavo ; capite thoraceque crebre punctatis ; elytris oblongis, con- 

 vexis, foveis magnis numerosis, seriatim dispositis, leviter impres- 

 sis, fundo rugoso-punc(atis et parce sericeis, instructis ; interspatiis 

 nitidis, hie illic inter se reticulatis, ad apicem costatis. Long. 3^ 

 lin. 



Hah. Western Australia; a smgle specimen in my cabinet^ 

 collected by Mr. Duboulay. 



Head closely rugose-punctate ; clypeus not separated from the 

 upper face, its anterior border narrowly edged with metallic 

 green, bidentate ; labrum and jaws pale yellow ; antennae nearly 

 three fourths the length of the body, slender, filiform, fulvous, the 

 apical joint black. Thorax twice as broad as long; sides rounded 

 and converging from base to apex ; above subcylindrical, closely 

 rugose-punctate. Scutellum broader than long, sides diverging 

 from the base towards the apex, the latter obtusely angulate ; 

 surface closely punctured. Elytra oblong, slightly attenuated at 

 the apex, convex, covered with large shallow foveae, arranged on 

 each elytron in ten longitudinal rows ; surfaces of these foveae 

 rugose-punctate and sparingly clothed with scale-like sericeous 

 hairs ; towards the apex of the elytra and on the extreme lateral 

 border the fovese forming each row are more or less confluent, 

 and run into distinct longitudinal grooves ; interspaces nitidous, 

 coarsely wrinkled and irregularly reticulating on the anterior two 

 thirds of tbe disk ; on the hinder third and on the outer border 

 they form longitudinal costae. 



