collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
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surface minutely, rather sparsely punctate, deeply canaliculate in 
the middle at the base, and with very small fovese just within the 
basal margin. Elytra four and one-half times the length, and 
twice the width of the prothorax, gradually widening for two- 
thirds of their length, and then abruptly rounded and converging 
to the apex ; finely and sharply punctate-striate, the punctures 
deep and very closely placed ; the interstices feebly convex, almost 
smooth (exceedingly minutely and very sparsely punctate when 
viewed under a strong lens). Beneath very sparsely, minutely 
punctate, the sides of the metasternum coarsely punctured. Legs 
moderately elongate, the tibiae widening outwards. Length 14|, 
breadth 6^ mm. ( 9 ). 
Hah, Tasmania — Mount Wellington^ near Hobarfc^ at 
an elevation of 1,000 feet. 
One specimen. The deep median groove at tbe base 
of the thorax is perhaps accidental. 
HOMOTRYSIS. 
Homotrysis, Pascoe, Journ. Ent._, ii., p. 487 (1866) ; 
Blackburn, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr., xiv., p. 319. 
The differences between this genus and Allecula have 
not yet been properly defined. The two species 
described below belong to Homotrysis as adopted by 
Blackburn. 
Homotrysis hicolor, n. sp. 
Elongate, rather broad, subparallel, flattened above, shining, ru- 
fous ; the elytra, except at the extreme base, pitchy-black ; the under 
surface, the prothorax excepted, piceo-ferruginous ; above sparsely 
clothed with long, suberect, fulvo-cinereous hairs. Head sparsely 
and rather coarsely punctate, behind the epistoma deeply trans- 
versely depressed ; the eyes moderately large, rather deeply emar- 
ginate, separated by a space equalling the width of one of the 
eyes as seen from above ; the apical joint of the maxillary palpi 
stout, subsecuriform ; the antennae extending to the basal third 
of the elytra, moderately stout, joints 3 and 4 equal in length. 
Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, much wider than the head ; 
the sides parallel from the middle to the base, rounded in front ; 
the hind angles rectangular ; the surface coarsely, thickly punctate, 
depressed in the middle before the base, and with rather deep 
basal foveas. Elytra four and one-third times the length of, and 
one-half broader than, the prothorax, subparallel for about two- 
