Notes on Amycterides, 29* 



SCLERORINUS SLOANEI, 11. Sp. 



<? Elongate, subparallel. Black ; sparsely clothed with minute 

 brown subpubescence ; setae dark brown. 



Head convex, forehead somewhat flattened, in same plane with 

 dorsal surface of rostrum; feebly longitudinally impressed on 

 each side of median line, with two small linear foveae in median 

 line, one in centre, and one at junction with rostrum. Rostrum 

 subparallel, the median carina as distinct as the external ridges,, 

 all three carried back on to head; sublateral sulci moderately 

 broad, deeper at base. Antennae comparatively short, moderately 

 stout, first funicular joint longer than second. 



- Prothorax rounded on sides, broadest in front of middle ; . 

 apical margin hardly produced above, feeble emarginate in 

 middle, with fairly evident ocular lobes ; subapical constriction . 

 moderately marked, median line lightly impressed; disc set with- 

 subdepressed, elongate, irregular sub-confluent granules, becom- 

 ing smaller and more rounded at sides; lateral surfaces with 

 small scattered obsolescent granules. 



Elytra elongate, subparallel, apex rounded ; base gently emar- 

 ginate, humeral angles not tuberculate; with rows of small, well 

 defined foveiform punctures, each subtended by a small seta;„ 

 the first, third and fifth interstices raised, with elongate some- 

 what flattened tubercles, less elongate towards apex of elytra,^,. 

 with small setae at 'the posterior end; second and fourth inter- 

 stices neither raised nor tuberculate ; sixth and seventh with less- 

 elongate tubercles; lateral interstices without definite granules 

 or tubercles. Venter subnitid, set with black, decumbent setae ; , 

 depressed at base, lightly transversely convex on intermediate- 

 segments ; apical segment slightly depressed with a median . 

 longitudinal sulcus bounded posteriorly by a less defined trans- 

 verse impression, the lips of the median sulcus raised in a small 

 projection above junction with the transverse impression; apical'^ 

 margin evenly rounded, not bisinuate. Legs simple ; anterior tarsi^; 

 symmetrical. 



2 Similar to male; prothorax with granules more rounded^, 

 less elongate; elytra more produced, the apex strongly bimucron- 

 ate, tubercules fewer and more spaced out on second interstice.. 

 Venter strongly convex, apex rounded, not bisinuate. 



Dimensions. — cT 17x6 mm.; $ 17x6.5 mm. 



Hab. — N.S.Wales, Capertee (T. G. Sloane and H. J. Carter)... 



