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arcuatis, angulis anticis sat acutis sat productis posticis 

 (siiperne visis) obtusis, basi leviter bisinuata, margine 

 basali sat sequali ; elytris crebre subtilius vix (f emina 

 quam mas paullo magis) squamose punctulatis (trans 

 elytron puncturis circiter 35) : pygidio maris sparsius 

 subtilins (feminse magis crebre magis fortiter) pnnctn- 

 lato ; coxis posticis quam metasternum hand brevioribns, 

 quam segmentum ventrali 2"'" valde longioribus ; tibiis 

 anticis extus tridentatis ; tarsorum posticorum articulo 

 basali 2° sat sequali, quam S"* sat longdori ; unguiculis 

 appendiculatis (formam bifidam nonnihil simulantibus). 

 Long., 41-6 1. ; lat., 2|-3 1. 



This species resembles TI . hoIosericeKS, Macl., in general 

 appearance and in most of its structural characters, but is 

 easily distinguished from it by the much less close punctura- 

 tion of its elytra, that of Jwlosericeus being quite as close as 

 of ><erua]is, Blackb. The punctures of the dorsal surface of 

 the sex that I believe to be the male are slightly larger and 

 stronger than of the other sex, and consequently are a trifle 

 more crowded together. 



Queensland; Brisbane (Coates) ; sent by Mr. Lea. 



Suhyroup II. 

 (Of Group IV.) 



This subgroup contains a large number of species, 30 

 hitherto described being confidently, and 3 doubtfully, re- 

 ferable to it (these last not included in the tabulation), and 

 35 more being described in the following pages, making a 

 total of 68. I have not been able to convict any of the names 

 employed for the above species of being mere synonyms. 

 There can be no hesitation in attributing to this subgroup 

 any of the species which I have tabulated as composing it ex- 

 cept two or three of the last six or seven, which are some- 

 what intermediate between Groups IV. and VIII. H . simius, 

 Blackb., is a species which also seems to be* on the 

 border line between Groups IV. and VIII. , its labrum being 

 visible, and concave in outline, when the head is viewed 

 obliquely from behind, but as its labrum rises above the 

 level of the clypeus I have regarded it as an aberrant mem- 

 ber of Group VIII. 



In the following pages will be found — (a) a tabular 

 statement of the distinctive characters of the species known 

 to me of this subgroup; fh) notes on the species not known 

 to me, but more or less probably belonging to the subgroup ; 

 (c) notes on some of the already described species; (d ) de- 

 scriptions of new species. 



Tabulation of the distinctive characters of Heteronyces 

 of Group IV. (Subgroup II.): — 



