176 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of 



apicem subcostatis, minute, subremote — interstitlo primo 

 crebrius — punctatis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. — Tasmania. 



Head subrotundate, rather broader tlian long, not 

 tbickened between tbe eyes; vertex and front finely punc- 

 tured, subrugulose, impressed here and there with a few 

 deeper punctures; front separated from the interocular 

 spaces by a deep groove; encarpse and carina obsolete; 

 antennse not half the length of the body, six lower joints 

 fulvous, the rest piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long; 

 sides rounded and converging from base to apex, the 

 anterior angles thickened, obliquely truncate, the hinder 

 ones nearly rectangular, acute; upper surface strongly 

 punctured. Scutellum semirotundate-ovate. Elytra 

 rather broader than the thorax, oblong, slightly attenu- 

 ated towards the apex, regularly punctate-striate, the 

 punctures on the short stria next the suture less regularly 

 placed; interspaces finely but not closely punctured, the 

 1st and to a less degree the 2nd interspaces more closely 

 punctured. 



Genus Stenophtma. 



Corpus elongatum, angustatum, parallelum, modice 

 convexum. Caput exsertum, oculis magnis, prominen- 

 tibus, rotundato-ovatis, intus vix sinuatis; encarpis con- 

 tiguis ; carina lineariformi, paullo elevata ; antennis 

 corpore longioribus, filiformibus, articulo primo curvato, 

 non incrassato; secundo et tertio brevibus, Eequalibus, 

 quarto tribus basalibus requali, creteris inter se cequalibus, 

 singulis quarto fere ^quilongis. Thorax subquadratus, 

 longitudine vix latior, lateribus rectis; angulis posticis 

 acutis, anticis incrassatis, extrorsum non productis; dorso 

 complanato, basi transversim sulcato. Elytra thorace 

 latiora, parallela, punctato-striata, limbo inflexo vix ante 

 apicem abbreviato. Pedes subelongati, femorihus posticis 

 modice incrassatis; tibiis apice spina armatis, posticis 

 dorso ad apicem canaliculatis ; unguiculis appendiculatis. 

 Prosternum coxis aequialtum ; acetabulis anticis apertia. 



Stenophyma etegans. 

 Elongata, angustata, fulva, nitida, antennis (basi ex- 



