812 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



lightly sinuate behind the middle ; the front angles are feebly 

 defined and rounded, the hind angles obtuse but nearly right 

 angles, with the extreme apex however rounded off, and directed 

 somewhat outward ; on the surface the anterior transverse im- 

 pression is strong, the dorsal channel well defined but reaching 

 neither the front mai'gin nor the base, and the basal fovea on 

 either side elongate and extremely deep. The elytra are at their 

 widest behind the middle, their sides gently rounded ; they are 

 moderately strongly striated, the striae finely and neither closely 

 nor very noticeably punctulate, the interstices somewhat convex 

 in front, but scarcely so behind ; the abbreviated stria near the 

 scutellura on each elytron is long (about equal to the basal two 

 joints together of the antennfe) and very deep, almost foveiform at 

 the apex, — the suture between them being more elevated than 

 behind. The eighth stria bears an irregular row of rather large 

 ))unctureH. 



Resembles the European P. subcyaneics, IlHg., but diflFers from 

 it inter alia as follows : — the prothorax is much less narrowed 

 behind with the hinder part of its sides much less strongly sinuate, 

 the striation of the elytra is feebler, the tarsi are less elongate 

 and not quite so hairy on the upper surface, and the claws are 

 slightly more crenulate on their inner edge. 



Port Lincoln, Wallaroo, and near Roseworthy. 



Cybister granulatu.s, sp.no v. 



^Ovalis; depressus; posterius conspicue latior ; minus nitidus ; 

 supra olivaceus, capite antice prothoraci.sque lateribus testaceis ; 

 elytris crebrius granulatis, margine externo (cum epipleuris) sat 

 late testaceo ; subtus piceus, metathoracis episteruis abdominisque 

 lateribus testaceo-maculatis ; pedibus 4 anterioribus testaceis, 

 femoribus anterioribus fusco-maculatis, tibiis intermediis et tarsis 

 anterioribus fusco-testaceis, tarsis intermediis pedibusque posticis 

 piceis ; antennis testaceis. Long. 12 lines, lat. 7 lines (vix). 



This species is colored almost exactly as the common widely 

 distributed C. tri2}unctatits, 01., save that the front tarsi are 



