1120 ON THE CARENIDES, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 
a depression on the base of each elytron, and a row of separate 
punctures along the lateral margins ; a strong puncture at the 
shoulder and another near the apex of each elytron. [The 
anterior legs are wanting in my specimen]. The prosternum is 
rounded behind, and without any longitudinal excavation. 
The elytra with convex rounded sides, and flat on the disc, are 
the most conspicuous features of this species. 
Loc . — Nicol Bay, West Australia. I am indebted to Mr. 
C. French for my specimen. 
Neoscaphus, gen.irov. 
Caput pone oculos angustatum, supra oculos bipunctatum; 
clypeus ad labri latera acute dentatus, medio leviter excavato ; 
frons fortiter bisulcata. 
Palpi maxillares securiformes ; labiates latissime securiformes. 
Lahrum truncatum. 
Antennoi tenues, articulo ultimo obtuso. 
Mentum dente medio longius instructum. 
Prosternum postice rotundatum, inter coxas longitudinaliter 
subexcavatum. 
Prothorax longiusculus, margine utrinque bipuuctato. 
Elytra cylindrica, basi excavato. 
Tibice anticae extus bidentatre ; femora antica ad apicem intus 
liaud punctigera. 
I have placed this genus next Conopterum to which it seems 
more closely allied by its elongate shape and strongly securiform 
palpi, than to any other that I know ; the head, however, is much 
lighter than in Conopterum, and the shape of the thorax is diflferent. 
Neoscaphus simplex, sp.nov. 
Niger, nitidus ; capite Irevi, pone oculos angustato, supra 
oculos bipunctato, snlcis frontalibus antice fortiter postice 
