166 Notes on Australian Coleoptera 
Brullea Antarctica : length 124’; of a dark brown, rather 
shiny, smooth; thorax cordiform, rounded laterally ; it 
presents a longitudinal sulcate in the middle, and a strong 
punctiform one on each of the posterior angles; elytra 
covered with strong longitudinal striz ; those nearer to the ~ 
margin very strongly punctated ; posterior part of elytra 
rugose ; on the margin a longitudinal row of very large and 
strong punctiform impressions, and another of four similar 
ones on the seventh striz; lower side of the body, legs, and 
antennee of a reddish brown. 
New Zealand, Auckland. 
PROMECODERUS. 
This form is up to the present entirely particular to 
Australia; no sorts having been found even in New Zealand. 
Promecoderus Tasmanicus: length 5’; subdepressed ; 
black, with a slight brilliant tinge ; head smooth ; thorax 
rounded, truncated in front, almost plain, with the lateral 
margins rather erected ; it is rather longer than broad, with 
the anterior prominent ; it has no longitudinal sulcate in 
the middle, but a very faint transverse impression is seen in 
front, and another behind; elytra smooth, with rather faint 
longitudinal strize, which, seen through a magnifying power, 
appear punctated; antennz, palpi, and tarsi of a reddish 
brown. 
Tasmania. 
Note.—Some specimens have the thorax much broader 
than others. I suppose this is a sexual character ; this sort 
is very distinct from Ovicollis by its depressed thorax, and 
the absence of the longitudinal sulcate on it. 
Promecoderus Bassi: length 7; of a brilliant black ; 
head and thorax generally of a dark metallic green ; head 
with a feeble transverse impression behind the eyes, and two 
very faint longitudinal ones between them (the latter some- 
times obliterated) ; thorax a little broader than wide, convex, 
of an oval form, with the anterior part truncated ; 1t has 
a longitudinal sulcate in the middle, a very faint transverse 
impression in front, and a stronger one behind ; elytra oval, 
rather convex, covered with striz, in which faint punc- 
tures may be seen; three very deep impressions on the 
posterior part of the margin ; lower side of the body black ; 
antennze, parts of the mouth and tazsi brown. 
From King’s Island, in Bass’s Straits. 
