850 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES^ 



et ad latera truncate, tarsorum posticorum articulo primo secunda 

 paullo brevioii ; tibiis anticis exteme obtuse 3-dentatis ; antennis 

 8-articulatis. Long. 4 lines, lat. 2 lines. 



In this species the clypeus has the form (although not very 

 sharply defined), which Mr. Macleay, in his monograph of the 

 genus, calls '• presenting three truncate faces." Its general 

 resemblance to L. posticalis is considerable. The head is punc- 

 tured almost exactly as in that species ; the prothorax is more 

 transverse, being quite twice as wide as it is long down the middle, 

 and is slightly more sparingly and finely punctured. The elytra 

 are a little longer in proportion, Vjeing more than twice as long as 

 the prothorax, with slightly finer and closer puncturation, and the 

 striae of each pair a little closer to each other. The tarsi are 

 evidently more slender. No species hitherto described is very 

 close to this. 



Northern Territoiy of S. Australia ; collected by Mr. J. P. 

 Tepper. 



Lepidiota Darwini, sp.nov. 



Ferruginea, supra sat sparsim, subtus densissime, albo-squamu- 

 lata ; capite lato minus convexo, clypeo perbrevi antice in medio 

 reflexo emarginato ; prothorace fortiter convexo, sat transverso, 

 antice angustato, lateribus post medium rotundato-ampliatis postice 

 fortiter sinuatis, angulis posticis acutis ; tibiis anticis tridentatis. 



[Long. 101-12 lines. 

 Mas (?) Augustus, elytris subparallelis. 



Fem. (?) Latior, elytris postice ampliatis. 



The sides of the clypeus, and the head backward to the level of 

 the middle of the eyes, are coarsely and sparingly punctured, each 

 pvincture being filled up with a white scale (which, however, does 

 not, or not much, protrude beyond it) ; the length of the clypeus 

 down the middle line is much less than half the length of the 

 coarsely punctured part behind it of the head ; the clypeal suture 

 is regularly and widely bisinuate ; the part of the head behind the 



