BY T. G. SLOANE. 
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space between the tifth stria and the margin, near the margin, 
a row of five or six punctures at wide intervals ; near the apex 
a few other punctures ; the elytra have a dull appearance owing 
to numerous minute scratches on their surface. The anterior 
tibiae ai’e tridentate externally. 
This species comes near S. rotimdipennis, from which the pro- 
tliorax emarginate at the base, the broader and less striate elytra, 
and its generally wider and flatter shape will help to distinguish it. 
Loc. — King’s Island, Bass’ Strait (taken by Mr. C. French, jun., 
during the visit of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria to the 
island last summer). 
SCARAPHITES PACIFICUS, Sp.nOV. 
Niger, nitidus, leevis ; capite sub-quadrato, supra oculos uni- 
punctato, fronte bifoveolata ; prothorace late transverse, vix 
cordato, basi truncate, lateribus rnai’ginatis, basi baud marginato, 
canaliculato 3 elytris sub-depressis, obovatis, antice truncatis, 
humeris hand notatis, striis sex punctulatis singulatim irapressis, 
serie sublaterali distantium punctorum notatis, marginibus 
humeros versus punctatis ; tihiis anticis valide tridentatis, inter- 
mediis apice dilatatis et extus dente curvato obtuse armatis. 
Long. 34 mm., lat. 15. 
Of a shining, pitchy-black. Head sub-quadrate (6 x 9), smooth 
except the frontal fo'^eye, these less wrinkled than is usual in 
the genus, one supra-orbital puncture on each side. Prothorax 
smooth, very transverse (7 x 12), widely but very slightly emargi- 
nate in front ; the sides parallel in the middle, rounded off’ near 
the anterior angles and at the posterior angles, sloping obliquely 
on each side behind to the base, which is truncate 3 a rellexed 
margin on the sides but entirely wanting on the base ; the 
median line distinctly, though lightly marked, not reaching 
either the anterior or posterior margin 3 a light oblicpie line on 
each side of the anterior angles. Elytra rather flat, obovate 
(17^x15)3 the base narrower than the thorax 3 each elytron 
with six light punctulate strue 3 the base truncate, with the 
