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(a tergo oblique viso) tripliciter convexo (parte niediana 

 ' quam laterales sublatiori) ; f route subtilius minus crebre 

 nee rugulose punctulata, hac clypeoque ut plana sat dis- 

 paria visis ; antennis 9-articulatis, articulis 3-6 per- 

 brevibus sat sequalibus ; prothorace quam longiori ut 12 

 ad 7 latiori, antice sat angustato, supra subtilius leviter 

 nee crebre punctulato (puncturis circiter 15 in segmenti 

 longitudine) lateribus (superne visis) fortiter rotundatis, 

 angulis anticis vix acutis modice productis posticis (sup- 

 erne visis) rotundatis, basi vix perspicue sinuata, margine 

 basali subtili sat aequali ; elytris perspicue striatis, spar- 

 sim leviter nee gequaliter punctulatis ; pygidio longitud- 

 inaliter carinato, leviter sparsim punctulato ; coxis pos- 

 ticis quam metasternum vix brevioribus, quam segmentum 

 ventrale 2 um multo longioribus ; tarsorum posticorum 

 articulo basali quam 2 US nonnihil, quam 3 US sat multo, 

 longiori ; unguiculis posticis appendiculatis, parte basali 

 quam apicalis sat longiori. Long., If 1. ; lat., § 1. 



Easily recognizable on account of its extremely small 

 size. If size were disregarded and also the pruinosity of the 

 elytra (involving, perhaps, a little iridescence), the species 

 would have to be placed in the tabulation beside H . siccus, 

 from which it differs by, inter alia multa, its elytra very dis- 

 tinctly striate. The puncturation of the elytra is sparse and 

 not symmetrically distributed, so that the counting of punc- 

 tures is of little use, but the number may be roughly stated 

 as averaging about 15 across an elytron. The trilobed out- 

 line of the head is not strongly developed and is not divided, 

 the middle lobe slightly larger than a lateral lobe. 



South Australia; Sedan (taken by the late Mr. Rothe). 



II. miser, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, postice leviter dila- 

 tatus ; minus nitidus ; f errugineus ; supra pilis brevibus 

 adpressis vestitus ; clypeo crebre sat fortiter ruguloso, 

 antice truncato, oculos in exteriorem partem haud super- 

 anti ; labro clypei planum superanti ; capite antice (a 

 tergo oblique viso) tripliciter convexo (parte mediana 

 quam laterales parum angustiori) ; fronte sat fortiter 

 minus crebre nee rugulose punctulata ; hac clypeoque fere 

 planum continuum efficientibus ; antennis 9-articulatis, 

 articulo 3° quam 4 US parum longiori ; prothorace quam 

 longiori ut 3 ad 2 latiori, antice parum angustato, supra 

 leviter canaliculato, subtilius vix crebre punctulato 

 (puncturis circiter 20 in segmenti longitudine), lateribus 

 (superne visis) parum arcuatis, angulis anticis sat acutis 

 sat productis posticis (superne visis) sat acute rectis, 

 basi sat fortiter bisinuata, margine basali ad latera vix 



