BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1339 
feeble erect tooth ; it does not form with the rest of the head a 
continuous plane. The prothorax is fully twice as wide as it is 
long down the middle, the base about a third again as wide as the 
front, which is evidently bisinuate vvith its angles very little pro- 
duced ; the sides are gently rounded, the hind angles obtuse 
(somewhat roundly), the base bisinuate, and hardly lobed in the 
middle. The transverse wrinkling of the elytra is almost non- 
existent ; these have no distinct striation and their lateral fringe 
is not continued round the apex (the specimen before me, however, 
is evidently abraded) , thei’e is a fairly well-defined apical mem- 
branous border. The pygidium in a fresh specimen is probably 
clothed with i-ather long erect hairs. The underside is nitid, 
strongly and rather closely punctured, the puncturation as also 
the rows of hairs obsolete in the middle of the ventral segments. 
The hind cox?e are very much shorter than the metasternum, the 
hind femora much wider than the intermediate, with their inner 
apical portion scarcely prominent. Claws appendiculate. 
N. S. Wales; in the collection of the Hon. W. Macleay. 
H. Tepperi, sp.nov. 
Sat elongatus, postice vix dilatatus ; sat nitidus ; niger, 
antennis palpisque rufis ; capite crebre rugulose, prothorace spar- 
sius sat fortiter, elytris fortiter .subsquamose, punctulatis ; his 
apicem versus membrana testacea marginatis ; pygidio opaco 
sparsim granulate ; al>domine ut //. fnlvo-hirti hirsute. 
[Long. 4^, lat. 2| line.s. 
The clypeus is evenly margined and strongly rounded in front, 
and forms a continuous surface with the rest of the head, inter- 
rupted however by the slightly arched and strongly keeled clypeal 
suture ; the head is punctured as that of //. fiUvo-hirtus. The 
prothorax is quite twice as wide as its length down the middle, 
and at the base rather more than half again as wide as across the 
front which is moderately emarginate with shaiq) angles ; its sides 
diverge in a gentle curve to about the middle and thence are nearly 
straight to tlie ba.se with which they form on either side a right 
