BY T. G. SLOANE. 
1109 
I believe this to be the species which Count Castelnau regarded 
as Scaraphites lucidus, Chaud. ; but it does not agree with the 
description of S. luciduis. It is not uncommon on the sandhills 
near Mulwala. The description above is taken from a rather 
large specimen. In size it varies, my specimens ranging from 
22 ram. to 30 mm. in length. Usually the elytra are quite smooth, 
but an occasional specimen has traces of elytral striae. It pro- 
bably has a wide range, for recently I took a specimen at 
Coonabarabran, N.S.W., which I cannot separate from this 
species, the only noticeable difference being its indistinctly striate 
elytra. 
Euryscaphus ferox, sp.nov. 
Niger, nitidus ; capite magno transverse, supra oculos bipunc- 
tato, sulcis frontalibus brevibus, antice fortiter divergentibus, 
postice linea curvata conjunctis ; prothorace transverse, marginato, 
leviter canaliculate, postice rotundato, lateribus paulum curvatis, 
augulis anticis vix productis, marginibus utrinque bipunctatis ; 
ehjtris convexis, sub-cu’cularibus, basi leviter emarginato, humeris 
notatis reflexisque, confertim punctulatis, disco postice fortiter 
bipunctato ; tihiis anticis bidentatis, intermediis extus .spina apicali 
valde armatis. 
Long. 35 mm., lat. 16 mm. 
Not of such a shining black as E. arenarius. Head transverse 
(G| X 1 1), a little nai’rowed behind the eyes; the frontal sulci 
short, connected behind by a transver.se impression, in front 
turning sharply outwards ; the head wi-inkled between the sulci 
and the eyes. There are two supra-orbital punctures. Prothorax 
transverse (8 x 14), almost truncate in front, rounded behind, 
with the sides slightly rounded ; a wide reflexed margin on the 
sides and behind becoming narrower on the base, thus causing 
the base to ap[>ear feebly lobate ; the anterior angles obtuse and 
hardly produced ; the median line lightly marked and crossed by 
tran.sverse striolai ; some longitudinal wrinkles along the anterior 
margin ; the basal portion of the thorax defined by a transverse 
impression. Elytra convex, longer than wide (18x16); the 
