716 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAX PSELAPHIDiE, 



dilated parts (which are densely punctured in front) from the 

 disc; disc convex, with the convex part gradually narrowed in 

 front, and at apex truncated. Elytra with dorsal stride fairly 

 deep about base, and traceable almost to middle; shoulders un- 

 armed and somewhat narrower than usual. Metasternum sliallowly 

 impressed along middle; with a small granule between hind coxae. 

 'trochanters unarmed. Length 2i mm. 



ffab.—'^. S. Wales : lllawarra(H. J. Carter). 



The prothorax is somewhat as in B. gibbicollis, but the apex as 

 seen from the sides is much less excavated, with the disc less 

 .strongly raised and its apex not overhanging; the lines marking 

 oflF the dilated sides are also much shallower, with the dilated 

 parts themselves punctured only in front. It is also a somewhat 

 narrower species. 



Batrisodes kershawi, n.sp. 



^. Reddish-castaneous, elytra and appendages slightl}' paler. 

 Clothed with rather long pale pubescence. 



Head rather more convex and with smaller eyes than usual; 

 antennary tubercles rather large and obtuse, the space between 

 them depressed but without a sutuial line; forehead with a 

 narrow median carina; a rather short curved impression on each 

 side, ending in a slight foveate expansion close to the eye. 

 Antennae long and rather thin, third joint slightly longer than 

 second, fifth and sixth each slightly longer than seventh, eighth 

 shortest of all, ninth the length of sixth, tenth slightly shorter, 

 eleventh somewhat shorter than ninth and tenth combined. 

 Prothorax less convex than usual, slightly longer than wide, sides 

 strongly rounded and strongly lessened to apex, and less strongly 

 to base; near base with a fovea irregularly connected with latero- 

 basal impressions; each side with a deep impression appearing to 

 terminate suddenly about the middle, but really very feebly con- 

 nected with the apex. Elytra rather wider and less convex than 

 usual ; dorsal stria? traceable only on basal slope ; shoulders 

 unarmed. Metasternum widely impressed along middle, the 

 impression rather shallow at base, but becoming deeper in middle 

 posteriorly. Hind trochanters strongly dentate. Length 2^ mm. 



