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FURTHER NOTES OX AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
qnam longitude quarave margo anticus minus duplo latiori, 
lateribus pone medium subparallelis ; elytris pone medium sub- 
dilatatis, fortiter striatis, striis crebre cancellatopunctulatis, 
interstitiis sat fortiter rotundato-elevatis sparsim subtilissime 
elevatis ; segmentis ventralibus subtiliter minus crebre punctu- 
latis, antice sat fortiter subreticulatim strigosis ; antennis 
elongatis, apice vix dilatatis. [Long. 8, lat. 3| lines. 
The elytra are more than four times as long, and (at their 
widest) quite half again as wide, as the prothorax ; the nature of 
the puncturation of their strite (arising from fine transverse 
carinte connecting the raised interstices) is unusual in the genus. 
X. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Mr. J. P. Tepper. 
CISTELIDJE. 
Metistete. 
M. (Allecula) pimeloides, Hope. 
I have specimens (taken near Adelaide and in Kangaroo 
Island) of an insect which agrees very well with the description 
of this species except in respect of size. Mr. Hope gives 8 lines 
as the length, but the large.st sj>ecimen before me does not exceed 
7 lines ; in allied species, however, 1 find so ■wide a variation in size 
that I do not consider this an important discrepancy. The insect 
is apparently a member of the genus Metistete (which, however, is 
very insufficiently characterised by its author). As the original 
description is veiy brief, I furnish a fuller one, as follows ; — 
Black ; thinly clothed with erect hairs which are reddish 
towards the apex of the elytra ; the front of the clypeus and of 
the labrum, the wide and c-onspicuous membranous connection 
Vjetween the 3rd and 4th, and the 4th and 5th ventral segments, 
the apex of the last ventral segment and the claws, red ; coxae 
more or less pitchy ; antennae obscure fuscous towards the apex, 
the apical two joints obscure feiTuginous. Head little elongated, 
strongly but not coarsely punctured, the punc-tures very close and 
more or less (especially in the hinder part) running into each 
