704 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPHID^, 



eleventh briefly truncate-ovate, apex feebly produced. Prothorax 

 about as long as wide, widest across apical third, thence strongly 

 narrowed to apex and arcuate to base; with a strong transverse 

 impression close to base; with three deep longitudinal impressions^ 

 of which the median one is narrower than the others, and is nob 

 quite continuous to apex. Elytra about as long as wide, sides 

 moderately rounded; with eight small basal fovese and with 

 rather small and fairly numerous punctures; dorsal strise distinct 

 on basal half, but vanishing posteriorly. Upper surface of 

 abdomen with medio-basal node feeble, and strise very indistinct; 

 lower surface slightly flattened along middle. Metasternum 

 feebly impressed along middle. Front trochanters obtusely 

 dentate. Length 1§ mm. 



9. Differs in being somewhat thinner, antennae thinner with- 

 the club smaller, cephalic impressions less deep, metasternum and 

 abdomen convex along middle, and trochanters unarmed. 



Hah. — Tasmania : Mount Wellington, in moss; Launceston(A. 

 M. Lea). 



Close to the preceding species, but antennae slightly thinner, pro- 

 thorax less strongly impressed, and metasternum diff"erent. The 

 head is more deeply impressed than in E. sctdpttis, and the base 

 of prothorax is different. 



On the sides there are a few long hairs scattered about, but 

 they appear to be entirely absent from the upper surface. The 

 base of the prothorax appears to be in two lobes, but the sub- 

 basal impression, although somewhat dilated where the longi- 

 tudinal ones traverse it, is almost straight. On the only male 

 before me, there is a broad flange-like process proceeding from 

 near the base of the flfth ventral segment, and very distinct 

 from the side; it is probably the sheath of the penis. 



EUPLECTOPS DISCOPALLIDUS, n.Sp. 



(J. Of a rather pale reddish-castaneous, appendages and most of 

 elytra somewhat paler. Clothed with rather sparse, pale pubes- 

 cence, interspersed with fairly numerous longer hairs. 



