908 
THE INSECTS OP THE VICINITY OF KING’s SOUND, 
semi-circular sweep, largely lobed and biemarginate at the base, 
a little rounded and elevated at the apex ; the disk thinly and 
sub-rugosely punctate with a sub-nitid ridge on each side of the 
median line converging a little behind and not reaching the base, 
and two very short basal ridges on each side of it. Elytra oblong- 
ovate and nearly three times the length of the thorax, with 10 
rows of large shallow punctures on each elytron, the interstices 
being alternately finely costate and granulate, or minutely tuber- 
culate. Legs long, the anterior tibiae without the usual tooth on 
the middle of the outer side. 
Long. 7 lines. 
143. Trox asperatus, n.sp. 
Black, very opaque, rough. Head broadly rounded at the 
apex, with a reflected margin, the forehead with a short transverse 
ridge divided in the middle. Thorax very transverse, the sides 
very little dilated, slightly rounded and crenulated, a small 
emargination above the posterior angles which are square; the 
base a little rounded, lobed in the middle, and wider than the 
apex, the disk rather coarsely and faintly punctate with three 
j)airs of strong glossy longitudinal ridges — the first pair diverging 
in a curve in the middle and not reaching the base, the next pair 
continuous from base to apex excepting a slight break in the 
centre, the outer pair on the basal half only. Elyti’a broadly 
ovate, wider than the thorax and more than three times the 
length, with 10 rows of coarse, rough, rather shallow punctures 
and granules, with the interstices alternately of elongate, obtuse, 
glossy tubercles and small round ones, the third and fourth inter- 
stices have the tubercles largest and are sub-costate at the base. 
The legs are short and strong, the anterior tibiae have one 
strong tooth on the outer apex, with two small ones about the 
middle. 
Long. 7, lat. 5 lines. 
144. Trox nodicollis, n.sp. 
Black, very opaque, squalid. Head coarsely punctate, bituber- 
culate in front, and sub-triangulai’ly rounded and reflexed at the 
