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out I take tlie genus as it stands at present. I follow Mr. Wa- 

 terhouse in dividing it into two sections, depending on the rela- 

 tive length of the two basal joints of the funicle ; but this is au 

 artificial arrangement, as it separates P. verves from P. mor- 

 hillosus. 



Section I, Second joint of funicle longer than the first. 

 PoROPTERUS EXiTiosus. P. sat late ovatus, subdcprcssus, niger, P^cc 

 pallide brunneo-squaraosus ; capite inter oculos fovea parva im- 

 presso ; rostro robusto, sat elongate ; oculis subtenue granulatis ; an- 

 tennis longioribus, versus apiceni rostri insertis ; funiculo art. secundo 

 primo plus sesquilongiore, eaeteris ovatis ; clava ovali ; prothorace 

 supra subplanato antice subtriangulari, apice bifido, utrinque vix 

 rotundato, basi incurvato, tuberculis quatuor parvis fasciculatis pone 

 medium transversim obsito ; scutello minuto ; elytris prothorace la- 

 tioribus modice convexis, postice subito declivibus, humeris valde 

 calloso-productis, remote fortiter punctatis, singulo tuberculis quinque 

 majusculis conicis — quatuor prope suturam, alioque extimo inter se- 

 cundum tertiumque, sitis, tuberculisque minusculis lateraliter uni- 

 seriatim instructis, apice late rotundatis extus tuberculo parvo munito ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque vage setuloso-squamosis. Long. 7 lin. 

 Hah. Queensland. 



A broad species, rather depressed above, or only slightly 

 convex. 



PoROPTERUS ELLiPTicus. P. oblongo-ovatus, niger, griseo-squamo- 

 sus ; rostro sat elongate ; oculis tenuiter granulatis ; antennis fusco- 

 piceis, funiculo art. secundo primo fere sesquilongiore ; clava ovali ; 

 prothorace subconico, sat elongate, baud tuberculato, apice bifido, 

 in medio carina elevata instructo ; elytris prothorace paulo latioribus, 

 utrinque rotundatis, pone medium modice elongatis, gradatim in 

 apices attenuato-productis, supra disperse impresso-punctatis, tu- 

 berculis plurimis seriatim dispositis, seriebus alternis tuberculis ma- 

 joribus instructis ; corpore infra pedibusque squaniis adpressis ves- 

 titis. Long. 6-7 lin. 

 Hab. New South Wales (Illawarra). 



Allied to P. chevrolatii, Waterh., but narrower, more elliptic, 

 and the elytra dravvn out posteriorly ; the caiina on the pro- 

 thorax is very marked and apparently always without scales. 



PoROPTERUS Waterhoush. P. augustatus, nigrescens, sat parce 

 subsilaceo-squamosus, squamositate concolori dense tectus j rostro 

 longiusculo ; oculis subtenuiter granulatis ; antennis piceis ; funiculo 

 art. secundo primo fere triplo longiore ; prothorace oblongo, gibboso, 

 antice abrupte constricto, utrinque in medio rotundato, basi angus- 

 tiore, supra antice tricarinulato, medio tuberculis rugosis quatuor 



