Notes on Australian. Coleoptera. 219 
Feroma Rufilabris: length 5’; of a brilliant black ; head 
oval, very lightly impressed in front; the labrum and palpi 
of a reddish brown ; antenne of the same colour, with their 
first four articles darker; thorax almost square, rather 
broader in front than behind, rounded laterally, having the 
front impression and the longitudinal sulcate moderately 
marked, and the two posterior impressions deep, narrow, 
and elongated ; the posterior part of the thorax is punctated ; 
elytra oblong, strongly punctated, striated; the sutural 
stria sinuous towards the scutellum, but no abbreviated 
stria ; there is a punctiform impression towards the middle 
of the third stria; the elytra are iridescent; lower side of 
the body of a dark brown ; legs black ; tarsi brown. 
Pine Mountains of Brisbane. 
Note.—These three last sorts could be placed almost as 
well with Argutor as with Pecilus. 
Ferowa Funebris: length 10’; ofa brilliant black ; head 
rather small, oval, with two longitudinal impressions in 
front ; thorax rather transverse, almost square, with the an- 
terior angles rounded, and the posterior straight; the ante- 
rior transverse impression is feeble ; the longitudinal sulcate 
moderately marked; the two posterior impressions very 
broad ; the elytra oblong, depressed, strongly striated ; the 
sutural stria bifurcated towards the scutellum; on the 
margin is a punctated stria, on which are seen a few larger 
punctiform impressions; tarsi, palpi, and antenne rather 
brown. 
This fine insect was found at Mount Gambier, and is in 
Dr. Howitt’s collection. 
FIFTH GROUP.—OMASEUS, 
In this division comes the Feronia <Australasic of 
Dejean, which is found commonly in Victoria, New South 
Wales, South Australia, and extends towards the interior, as 
far as the rivers Darling and Paroo; the following sorts 
appear undescribed. 
Feroma Lachlandiensis: length 74’ ; nearly allied to the 
precedent, but the thorax is not cordiform, being rounded 
laterally, and much broader in front than behind ; the poste- 
rior angles are more rounded. 
The insect is of a brilliant black, with the tarsi brown ; 
the palpi and antenne of a light brownish red. 
From the Lachlan River. 
Feronia Clarenciensis: length 5’; of a brilliant black; 
Q 2 
