844 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIESr 



species and taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper, at Port Darwin, which I 

 cannot distinguish from a short series in the S. Australian Museum 

 ticketed as having been taken at Rockhampton, Queensland 

 (B. glohuliforme was described on specimens from Port Denison, 

 Queensland), and which agree very well with the description of 

 either insect. If B. globuliforme is a good species it would seem 

 desirable for it to be re-described and its distinction from 

 B. rotyindatum pointed out. A study of the descriptions of 

 B. rotnndatum and rubescens by both Hope and Westwood, 

 together with the figures supplied by the latter, creates a doubt, 

 moreover, of the distinctness of the two ; the figure shows a 

 difference in the shape of the prothorax that would appear satis- 

 factory enough, but unfortunately it is not alluded to by either 

 author in stating the differences between them. 



B. siMPLiciCEPS, sp.nov. 



Rotundatum, rufum, supra glabrum ; clypeo in medio in tul>er- 

 culum elevato, lineis 4 elevatis ex hoc tuberculo prodeuntibus, 

 scil. 2 ad angulos clypei anticos, 2 (postice tuberculatim elevatis) 

 ad basin antennarum, inter has lineas interveniis fortiter rugose 

 punctulatis ; capite postice sequaliter leviter convexo, sparsim 

 minus fortiter punctulato; prothorace ad latera fortiter acervatim 

 punctulato, fossulato, vix evidenter canaliculato (canali obsoleto 

 punctis nonnuUis indicato) antice breviter retuso, spatio retuso 

 longitudinaliter 3-sulcato, inter sulcos interspatiis postice sub- 

 tuberculatis ; elytris leviter 9-striatis striis subtiliter punctulatis ; 

 tibiis anticis externe 5-dentatis. Long. 4 lines, lat 2? lines. 



The nine strife of the elytra do not include the one close to the 

 lateral margin, which bends inward from the margin near its 

 base like an oblique fovea ; of the nine the nearest two to the 

 suture are much stronger than the others. En the five specimens 

 that I have seen there is very little difference likely to be sexual ; 

 in one of them the lateral two of the three longitudinal furrows 

 on the retuse part of the prothorax are almost obsolete, and the 

 puncturation of the head differs, the rather large punctures of the 



