868 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIE 



of the intermediate expansion of the prothorax is distinctly con- 

 cave owing to its being turned up at the edge. The general 

 sui'face of the elytra is much more coarsely rugose than in Icevi- 

 collis, the costse and tubercles being very similar when closely 

 examined, but appearing at the first glance less conspicuous owing 

 to the greater rugijsities among which they are ])luced. The 

 anterior tibise are narrower, the apical spur being long, very much 

 more slender, and acutely pointed. 



I have a single specimen taken by Mr. J. J. East near Mallala. 



S. LiNDi, sp.nov. 



Late ovatus ; opacus ; niger ; capite jjrothoraceque confertim 

 sul)tilitor granulatis ; hoc qiiam longiori multo plus duplo latiori, 

 sat late marginato, marginibus planatis ; elytris minute spaisius 

 granulivtis, fortiter tricostatis, interstitiis seriatim tuberculatis ; 

 tibiis anticis calcare robusto breviori instructis. 



[Long. 6 lines, lat. 4^ lines. 



Another ally of S. htvicullis, F., but very distinct from it. The 

 prothorax at its widest is twice and a-half as wide as down the 

 middle it is long, and its base is nearly twice and a-half as wide 

 as its front, the margins being without transverse wrinkles, ar.d the 

 basal portion being declivous backward, and bearing a large well- 

 marked central imi)ression ; in other respects the head and pro- 

 thorax resemble those of S. Uevicollis. The elytra are not longer 

 than together wide ; their general surface, underlying the granules 

 tubercles and costaj is quite smooth ; this surface is sprinkled with 

 minute granules which are sparing about the region of the scu- 

 tellum but become closer towards the margin and apex ; the suture 

 is scarcely elevated near the base but becomes strongly so on the 

 hinder declivity, and is bordered on either side by a row of close- 

 set large granules, or small tubercles, some of which are conical 

 and some elongate ; each elytron bears 6 rows of strong elevations 

 which cease at the beginning of the hind declivity ; the 2nd and 

 4th of these form undulated nearly uninterrupted costse ; the 

 others consist of elongate I'idges resembling disconnected portions 



