BV WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 
1233 
a large purplish patch occupying most of the posterior half. 
Beneath brilliant metallic green, very lightly punctate. 
Long. 3, lat. 1 line. 
201 Trachys Australis, n.sp. 
This is the first of the genus described from Australia. It is 
very small, of the regular trigonal form of the genus, finely 
punctate, of a brassy colour, and nitid with four wavy fasciie on 
the elytra formed by a thin whitish pubescence. 
Long. ^ line. 
202. Trachys nigra, n.sp. 
Of rather more elongate form than the last, black, nitid, roughly 
punctate, the punctures large. 
Long. 1 line. 
203. Aphanisticus occidentalis, n.sp. 
Elongate, narrow, bluish-black, sub-nitid, densely punctate. 
Head globular in front, and canaliculate. Thorax as long as 
wide, convex, and a little rounded on the sides. Elytra rather 
narrower than the thorax and more than three times the length, 
rounded and a little narrowed at the apex, punctate, each puncture 
with a very short whitish seta, the scutellar I’egion more densely 
j)unctate and somewhat swollen, an inconspicuous ridge from the 
shoulder down the middle of each elytron. Beneath cinereo- 
j)ubesceut. 
Long. 2, lat. J line. . 
Family TPJXAGID^. 
204. Tri.xagus elongates, Bouv. 
Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 3034. 
I am not by any means certain that tlie two specimens of 
Trixagm I have received from King’s Sound, are identical witlx 
Bonvouloir’s species. 
Family ELATERIDyE, 
205. Agrvpnus Mastersi, Mach 
Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 3051. 
