834 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES^ 



The whole of the head is uniformly punctured, and there is a 

 well-defined narrow longitudinal furrow between the eyes. The 

 prothorax is much more coarsely and less closely punctured than 

 the head ; it is decidedly transverse and not very much wider in 

 front than behind ; its sides are only slightly rounded in front, 

 scarcely sinuate behind, and with very little appearance of crenu- 

 lation ; its surface is uneven in a manner very difficult to define, 

 — from the centre of the base an obscure rib runs forward about 

 a third the length of the segment, and then forks into two 

 branches which run obliquely for a short distance towards the 

 anterior angles and then turn towards the front margin and fade 

 into the general surface, from the point where they turn forward 

 a similar rib being given off on either side which runs back in a 

 slight curve nearly to the base half-way between the central rib 

 and the posterior angles ; the spaces among and immediately 

 outside all these ribs are obscurely depressed. The elytra are 

 very slightly at their widest behind the middle ; their anterior 

 margin is very strongly defined, their suture strongly elevated ; 

 each of them bears ten very regular rows of square, and deep, but 

 not very large punctures, the intervals between the rows being 

 well defined, the intervals outside the middle a little the most 

 conspicuous. 



Compared with the preceding this is a narrower and more 

 parallel species, with defined inequalities on the prothorax, and 

 elytra very much more finely punctured, the punctures in even 

 rows and the inteisiices between the rows regular. The elytral 

 sculpture is not unlike that of H. angustatus, Germ., but the 

 interstices between the rows are narrower and more defined. 



I have a specimen of this insect from Murray Bridge, and 

 another from Western Victoria. 



H. Victoria, sp.nov. 

 Sat elongatus ; piceus, antennis, palj^is jiedibusque dilutioril)US, 

 tarsorum apice nigris ; capite prothoraceque fortiter rugulose 

 punctulatis ; hoc xix imequali; elytris fortiter confuse sculptur- 

 atis, interstitiis alternis sat fortiter elevatis. 



[Long. 1 i lines, lat. 5 line. 



