724 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPIIIO/E, 



close in appearance to E. exigua (tlie club of which is as in the- 

 male of E. cajntata), but elytral pubescence denser and finer, and 

 prothorax rather wider at base. Also very close to the preceding, 

 and with pubescence almost the same, although not quite so short, 

 but the metasternal excavation is rather shallower, prothorax 

 wider at base and a trifle shorter, and elytra with vague remnants 

 of dorsal striae. The antennae at first appear much the same, but 

 the tenth joint is shorter and so more transverse, and the eleventh 

 is even moie briefly ovate; the ninth joint is somewhat larger, so 

 that the club should perhaps be regarded as three-jointed instead 

 of two-jointed. 



EUPINES BITUBEKCULATA, n.sp. 



1^. Bright reddish-castaneous, appendages somewhat paler, head 

 generally much darker, suture lightly infuscated. Upper surface 

 glabrous. 



Head without interocular impressions, and the frontal ones 

 very shallow and indistinct. Antennae rather long, ninth joint 

 feebly transverse, tenth fairly large but very feebly transverse, 

 eleventh ovate. Prothorax fairly long and strongly convex, 

 widest at about apical fourth. Elytra rather large and dilated 

 posteriorly although not to apex; subsutural striae comparatively- 

 feeble, the dorsal ones entirely absent. Metasternum rather 

 widely and shallowly impressed. Abdomen \iit\\ two conspicuous 

 tubercles close together at apex of second segment, and slightly 

 overhanging the third. Trochanters apparentl}'^ unarmed; front 

 tibiae moderately dilated at apical third, and then narrowed to 

 apex. Length 1-limm. 



5. Differs in having the metasternum much more shallowly 

 impressed, the abdominal tubercles absent, and front tibiae 

 simple. 



Hab. — New South Wales : Sydney, seven specimens in grass 

 tussocks(A. M. Lea). 



The sexual characters are much as described by Raffray for E. 

 vielanocpphald, but the types are from Sydney, and the abdomen 

 in all of them is no darker than the elytra; Schaufuss described 



