BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1359 
3rd Section. — Upper edge op labrum rising at least to a 
LEVEL WITH THE PLANE OP THE CLYPEUS. 
Sub-section 1. Antennae 8-jointed. 
Sub-sub-section 1. Claws bifid. 
A. Species less than 3| lines in length. 
B. Elytx’a unicolorous. 
C. Pilositj light fex’ruginous ixx coloux’ suhmetallicus, Blackb.. 
CC. Pilosity white (ox’ nearly so) Lindi, Blackb. 
BB. Elytra with axx apical red spot maculatus^ Blackb. 
AA. Species over 4|- lines ixx length capillatus, Mach 
H. CAPiLLATUS, Mach 
M. capillatus, Mach, P.L.S.N.S.W. (2) ITI, p. 916. 
Of this species (described on specixnens from King’s Sound ixx 
N.W. Australia) I fixxd an example axxxong the Coleoptera collected 
by Mr. J. P. Tepper in the 1ST. Territory of S. Australia. Mr. 
Macleay speaks of the elytx'a as having three faint striae on either 
side of the suture ; the N. Territory specimen before me has no 
striae at all, and that from Kixxg’s Sound has oxxly faint traces of 
ciie. The original type is no doubt mox-e distinctly striated thaxx 
either of these, but, as far as nxy observations go, the striatioxx of 
the elytra in lleteronyx (at least with a vexy few exceptioxxs) is 
quite a valueless character, as true sti'iatioxx hardly exists ixx the 
genus and such apparent simulation of it as is occasionally trace- 
able is a mere individual peculiarity, axxd is never, 1 think, 
coixnected with anything like a linear arx-axxgement of puncturatioxx. 
1 never treat it in my descriptioxxs as a character of axxy 
importance. 
The following charactex’s are ixot noticed ixx Mr. Macleay’s 
desci iptioix of the species, and I am indebted to him (as ixx the case 
of some other species) for sending me an example with a view to 
my supplementing his diagnosis. Upper margin of labrum rising 
exactly to a level with the surface of the clypeus ; antennai 
8-jointed ; teeth of fi’ont tibiax strong and acute ; hixxd cox ax not 
much shorter thaxx metasternum and alxout twice as long oix external 
margin as second segmexxtof hind body; ventral series consisting of 
