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line quite strongly arched and the space between their series of 

 punctures bearing only one or two fovea-like impressions, ap- 

 pear to me a strong mark of alliance with corpulentus, MacL, 

 and its allies ; and its short, wide clypeus with front margin 

 widely sinuate points in the same direction. Govpulentus, 

 etc., are, however, large species with coarse, sparse sculpture 

 and different vestiture. 



North Queensland (Mr. Perkins). 



//. farsalis, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, jDOstice vix dilatatus ; 



sat nitidus ; castaneus vel brunneus ; supra fere glaber ; 



subtus sparsim pilosus ; clypeo sat crebre minus rugu- 



lose sat grosse punctvilato, antice late rotundato ; labro 



summo clypei planum hand attingenti ; fronte vix crebre 



sat grosse nee rugulose punctulata ; fronte clypeoque 



planum sat continuum efficientibus ; antennis 9-articu- 



latis ; prothorace quam longiori ut 5 ad 3 latiori, antice sat 



angustato, siipra minus fortiter minus crebre punctulato 



(puncturis circiter 16 in segmenti longitudine), lateribus 



leviter arcuatis, angulis anticis subacutis modice produc- 



tis posticis (superne visis) sat rectis, basi leviter bisinu- 



ata, margine basali subtili sat aequali ; elytris leviter 



sparsim subseriatim punctulatis (trans elytron puncturis 



circiter 15), manifeste striatis, interstitiis nonnihil con- 



vexis ; pygidio sparsim minus fortiter punctulato ; coxis 



posticis quam metasternum multo brevioribus quam 



segmentum ventrale 2""! sat longioribus ; tibiis anticis 



extus tridentatis ; femoribus posticis sat dilatatis, biseri- 



atim punctulatis, seriei posticae puncturis circiter 6, inter 



series area fere laevi ; tarsorum posticorum articulo basali 



quam 2"^ multo (quam 3"* manifeste) breviori ; ungui- 



culis bifidis. Long., 3-5 1. ; lat., lf-2f 1. 



The most conspicuous superficial characters of this sjDe- 



cies seem to be the sparse, subseriate, lightly impressed punc- 



turation of its elytra and the shortness of the basal joint of 



its hind tarsi. Its head is small and narrow as compared 



with that of some of its allies {e-g., H. rnrpulentus, Macl.). 



It is easily identified by the characters assigned to it in the 



tabulation. It varies greatly in size, the small specimens 



being, I think, males. The hinder tooth of the hind claws 



is situated far back — not much in front of the middle of 



the claw. 



North-West Australia. 

 //. Gri-ffithi, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, postice parum dilata- 

 tus ; sat nitidus ; obscure brunneus, antennarum flabello 

 testaceo ; supra fere glaber; subtus sparsim pilosus; 

 clypeo sat crebre sat grosse nee rugulose punctulato ; 

 labro summo clypei planum baud attingenti; fronte spar- 



