718 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPHIDiE, 



EUPINES QUINTANA, 11. sp. 



^. Piceous-brown, elytra bright reddish-castaneous, legs and 

 antennae somewhat paler, but club slightly darker. With rather 

 long, pale, straggling, sparse hairs. 



Head with a minute puncture close to each eye, and a very 

 shallow depression behind base of each antenna. Antennae wi(h 

 fifth joint inflated, and angularly produced at its inner apex, ninth 

 slightly transverse and feebly produced inwardly, tenth more 

 transverse and also feebly produced inwardly, eleventh rather 

 large and ovate. Prothorax widest at about one-third from apex. 

 Elytra with a faint impression on each side of base, representing 

 the dorsal striae. Metasternum rather narrowly and deeply 

 grooved. Second segment of abr/onieii with a small flattened 

 suboblong median node, rather nearer its base than its apex, 

 apical segment flattened in middle. Front trochanters finely and 

 acutely dentate. Length 1 mm. 



9. Differs in having the fifth joint of antennae scarcely stouter 

 (although slightly longer) than fourth or sixth, the club smaller, 

 metasternum faintly impressed and only at apex and abdomen, 

 and trochanters simple. 



Hab. — Tasmania : Jordan River, Launceston, Stonor, Swan.sea, 

 Hobart(A. M. Lea). 



Differs from E. glohulifera in having the antennae of both sexe.'- 

 longer, metasternum of male apparently strongly carinate* on 

 each side of sulcus and not tnberculate posteriorly. E. nigriceps 

 is smaller and differently coloured, with tenth joint of antennae, 

 and metasternum different. E. tdgricollis is larger, with two 

 distinct punctures or small foveae between eyes. E. hiclavata is 

 very differently coloured, with abdomen of male different. E. 

 sobrina (from Tasmania) is described as castaneous, with the 

 elytral disc paler. E. vitrea (also from Tasmania) is described 

 as differently coloured, and the sutural stria scarcely impressed. 



Most of the specimens before me have the prothorax as dark 

 as the head, but on some it is not so dark, although never so pale 



* This appearance is due to the rather precipitate sides of the sulcus, and 

 not to any elevation of the surface itself. 



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