BY ARTHUR M. LEA. "269 



//rtJ._N.S.\V.: Glen Innes, Gosford (Lea), Newcastle (Macleay 

 Museum). 



A smaller species than the preceding, the elytral interstices not 

 at all ridged and the shoulders less prominent. 



PSEUDOSTOREUS, n,g. 



Head feebly convex, not concealed; ocular fovea indistinct. 

 Eyes rather small, ovate, lateral, rather coarsely faceted. Rostrum 

 moderately long and rather thin, almost parallel-sided, feebly 

 convex, terminated at mesosternum. Anfennce thin ; scape 

 inserted much closer to apex than base of rostrum, the length of 

 funicle and club combined; two basal joints of funicle moderately 

 long; club small, ovate, free. Prothorax scarcely transverse, 

 sides narrowed in front, apex moderately produced and about 

 half the width of base, base bisinuate; ocular lobes feebly rounded. 

 Scutellum small and round. Elytra elongate-cordate, not much 

 wider than prothorax, shoulders and apex rounded. Pectoral 

 canal wide and rather deep, scarcely narrowed between inter- 

 mediate coxse, these excavated. Mesosternal plate transverse, 

 depressed but scarcely concave, sloping from base to apex. Meta- 

 sfermim large, longer than basal segment of abdomen; episterna 

 rather narrow. Abdomen moderately large, gently convex 

 throughout, sutures distinct; 1st segment longer but not much 

 larger than 2nd, intercoxal process rounded and rather narrow; 

 intermediates combined slightly longer than 2nd or apical and, 

 with the 2nd, curved at sides. Leys moderately long; femora 

 stout, feebly grooved, the four posterior feebly dentate, the 

 anterior edentate, the posterior terminated before apex of abdo- 

 men ; tibiae scarcely bisinuate beneath; tarsi rather short and 

 stout, 3rd joint moderately wide, deeply bilobed; claw-joint rather 

 short, considerably wider at apex than at base; claws rather strong 

 and widely separated. Oblong-elliptic, subdepressed, punctate, 

 squamose, winged. 



Allied, but not very closely, to Melanterius; in the tabulation 

 it is placed with Melanteriosoma, to which it is even less closely 

 allied. The anterior coxee are perhaps more widely separated 



