126 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
Veradia Brisbanensis: length 33’; of a dark brown, 
rather brilliant ; head with two punctiform impressions in 
front ; thorax with a longitudinal sulcate and two broad 
impressions behind ; elytra strongly striated with the margin 
impressed, particularly on its posterior half; legs, parts of the 
mouth and antenne brown. 
Brisbane. | 
SETALIS. 
Mentum very short, transversal, three times broader than 
long, emarginated, with the centre convex and rounded ; the 
wings of the mentum small, very little advanced, rounded 
externally and rather pointed at the extremity on their 
inner side; labrum transverse, emarginated in front ; 
palpi long; maxillary, with their second article long 
and rather arched, the third conical, and the terminal oval 
and truncated at the extremity ; this same article of the 
labial broader, more largely truncated, scutiform ; antenne 
rather long but shorter than the head and thorax united ; 
the first article large, the three following conical and 
almost equal in length; the others oval, granuliform ; 
the last large and rounded at the extremity ; body oblong, 
parallel, depressed ; head triangular, connected with the 
thorax by a neck ; thorax large, depressed ; broader behind 
than in front, rounded on the anterior part of the lateral 
margins ; scutellum triangular, short and transverse ; elytra 
rather depressed, of the breadth of the thorax, oval behind ; 
legs strong, thighs dilated; anterior tibie very strong, 
inflated in their inferior part, having a row of very minute 
spines on their external side and on the internal a narrow 
but very deep split ; tarsi thick, the anterior with their four 
first articles triangular ; all the tarsi ciliated below. 
Setalis Niger: length 5°; black, glossy; parts of the 
mouth, antenne and tarsi brown; thorax marginated 
laterally and in front, having a longitudinal sulcate in the 
middle and two strong longitudinal impressions on each side 
at its posterior part ; the external much shorter than the 
other ; its surface presents faint transverse striole ; elytra 
covered with very deep simple striz, and a line of puncti- 
form rugosities round the margin ; abdomen having a deep 
punctiform impression on each side of its segments. 
Found round Brisbane and on the Clarence River. » 
