204 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
truncated behind, with the angles very lightly obtuse ; the 
sides are rounded, the anterior angles advanced ; there is a 
transverse impression in front, a longitudinal sulcate in the 
middle and two strong impressions behind ; elytra short, 
oval, depressed, having each seven elevated cost, in tho 
intervals of which are faint punctured striee, not visible to 
the naked eye, the margin is lightly impressed, two puncti- 
form impressions on the third coste; antenne hirsute, 
except on the four first articles. 
This fine insect is found in the cedar bushes on the 
Clarence River, and was forwarded to me by Mr. Wilcox. 
Feronia Obesa: length 12’; very nearly allied to the 
precedent and may possibly be a variety of it, but smaller, 
still shorter and broader; thorax shorter, almost as broad 
behind as in front, with the sides more rounded on their 
anterior part, and the anterior angles very acute; the costee 
of the elytra not so marked, particularly behind; the 
punctured strize much stronger; the elytra are as shiny as 
the thorax ; general color more obscure than in Ad/as. 
Clarence River. | 
Feronia Solandersii: length 12’; also very nearly allied 
to the two precedent, but differmg from Atlas by its 
smaller size, its still broader form, its thorax much more 
cordiform, and narrower behind, and more rounded at its 
anterior part; the elytra broader, shorter and wider on 
their posterior part; the coste are much less marked. From 
Obesa it is easily distinguished by its cordiform thorax ; 
the punctate strize are well marked on the back part of the 
elytra, but are not perceptible on their first part. 
The insect is black, with a dark green margin on the sides 
of the thorax and elytra. 
Found by Mr. Wilcox in the pine scrubs (Araucaria) of 
the Clarence district of New South Wales. 
Feronia Episcopalis: length 17’; elongated, of a beautiful 
purple; head with two longitudinal impressions between 
the eyes, these impressions present some transverse striolee ; 
thorax strongly cordiform, narrow behind, broad in front, 
rounded laterally on the anterior part, the anterior angles 
produced and rather rounded, the posterior ones straight and 
rather elevated, the anterior transverse impression, the 
longitudinal one, and the two posterior are deeply marked ; 
elytra oval, elongated, with their axillary angles acute, they 
have eight longitudinal costz (in counting the sutura) the 
seventh of which forms a light carene; the intervals 
a 
fi 
"i 
a 
