216 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
impressions ; the margin impressed ; the colour of the elytra 
ig a dark iridescent purple, with a golden margin ; lower side 
of the body, legs, antenne, and palpi brown. 
Merimbula, New South Wales. 
Peroma Viridimarginata : length 8’; black; head oval, 
with a copper tinge; thorax about as broad as wide, rounded 
laterally ; narrower behind than in the middle, with the an- 
terior angles advanced ; the front impression very faint, the 
sulcate strong, the two ‘posterior impressions deep but nearly 
linear; the surface is marked with very faint transverse 
striole; the elytra are oblong, rather elongated, of the 
breadth of the thorax at their basis ; they are opaque, of a 
dark purple, almost black, with a metallic green margin; 
they are covered with striz, the intervals of which are not 
convex, but the one between the second and third having 
on its posterior part two punctiform impressions; margin 
also impressed ; lower side of the body, antenne, and legs 
of a brilliant black ; tarsi and palpi rather brown. 
Brisbane. } 
Feronia Darlingii: length 73’ ; very much like the prece- 
dent, and might easily be taken for it, but the thorax at- 
tenuated behind and more cordiform ; the elytra more oval, 
and narrower near the basis, with the humeral angles more 
rounded. 
The colour is sometimes black, sometimes of a dark copper, 
with the margin of the ely tra green. 
Found by Mr. Masters in the Pine Mountains of Queens- 
and. 
THIRD GROUP.—OMASEUS. 
Feronia Mitchelit: length ; black, sometimes. copper 
colour ; head rather large ; igre large, almost square, a 
little narrower behind than in the middle, with the angles 
rather rounded ; the transversal front impression very feeble ; 
the sulcate and the two elongated posterior impressions strongly 
marked ; elytra rather oblong, striated, with two punctiform 
impressions on the posterior part of the interval between the 
second and third strie; margin striated; lower side of the 
body, legs, palpi, and antennze black. | 
Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. 
Feronia Rufipalpis: length 6’ ; black ; head large ; thorax 
‘short, transverse, rounded laterally and at the anterior angles, 
the posterior being well marked and rather obtuse; the front 
impression is very faint, the sulcate and posterior impressions 
