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ME. J. S. BALT ON NEW SPECIES 



Hah. Australia, Bockhainpton, 



Head deeply punctured, granulose, sparingly clothed with 

 coarse, adpressed, white hairs ; lower portion of front impressed 

 with a longitudinal groove ; clypeus one half longer than broad, 

 its apex separated from the face by an angular groove ; anterior 

 margin subangulate-emarginate, the angles of the notch each pro- 

 duced into an obtuse tooth ; jaws nigro-piceous ; antennse slightly 

 longer than the thorax, the five outer joints black. Thorax 

 broader than long, sides rounded; basal margin oblique and 

 slightly sinuate on either side ; the median lobe sinuate ; above 

 convex, covered with sulcate punctured strigse, transverse at the 

 base, oblique towards the apex, entirely obsolete at the apex 

 itself, where the puncturing becomes confused; basal border 

 broadly margined. Scutellum rather broader than long, pen- 

 tangular, its surface impressed with a few deep punctures. Elytra 

 much broader at the base than the thorax, slightly attenuated 

 towards the apex ; convex, transversely excavated below the 

 basilar space, the latter thickened, the humeral callus prominent ; 

 impressed with large but rather shallow punctures, arranged in 

 numerous longitudinal rows ; interspaces plane, irregularly 

 wrinkled below the humeral callus and also below the basilar 

 space ; surface sparingly clothed with suberect, narrow, scale- 

 like hairs, arranged in ill-defined longitudinal rows, much less 

 numerous than the rows of punctures. Pleurae densely clothed 

 with adpressed white pubescence. Tour hinder thighs each 

 armed with an acute spine. 



Scelodonta lidentata, described by me in the Trans. Entom. Sec. 

 of London, p. 43 (April 1877), has been since described by M. 

 Lef evre in the Erench ' Annales ' for 1877, p. IGl, under the name 

 of Scelodonta egregia. 



Genus Paeascela, n.. gen. 



Corpus oblongo-ovatum, valde convexum, pube suberecta vestitum. 

 Caput exsertum,/«cze perpendiculari ; oculis prominentibus, integris, 

 apice orbito depresso munitis ; antennis filiformibus, articulo basali 

 incrassato, secundo et tertio sequilongis, utroque primum longitu- 

 dine sequantibus. Thorax subglobosus, lateribus marginatis. Elytra 

 thorace latiora, convexa, confuse punctata. Pedes mediocres ;femoribtis 

 modice incrassatis, subampullatis, subtus dente acuto armatis ; tibiis 

 posticis quatuor extus ante apicem emarginatis ; unguicuUs appendi- 

 culatis. Prostermim subquadratum, lateribus concavis, apice trun- 



