:750 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPHID^, 



Hah. — Tasmania : Mount Wellington, Hobart; four specimens, 

 from moss(A. M. Lea). 



In general appearance close to the preceding species, but the 

 antennae shorter, elytra fringed at apex, and the male characters 

 very different. 



The head appears to have, from some directions, two conspicu- 

 ous interocular tubercles, but these are due principally to the 

 median groove, although partly also to their own elevation. The 

 medio-basal impression on the prothorax is separated from the 

 others by a feeble carina on each side; the lateral ones are longi- 

 tudinal, the intermediate ones transverse. From some directions 

 there appears to be a strong transverse subbasal groove slightly 

 interrupted on each side of middle. 



PSELAPHUS VILLOSUS, n.sp. 



^. Bright reddish-castaneous, legs and antennse paler, tarsi 

 and palpi somewhat flavons. Clothed with long straggling dark 

 setfle, on the elytra(which are not fringed at apex) ratlier sparser 

 on disc than elsewhere. Under surface with dense pale pubescence 

 at base of abdomen, on each side of mesosternum and on apex of 

 prosternum. 



Head moderately long, with a wide but feeble median channel. 

 Antennae moderately long, first joint as long as second and third 

 combined, second stouter and slightly longer than third, third to 

 eighth about as long as wide, ninth and tenth subglobular, not 

 longer than wide, their combined length about equal to eleventh. 

 Palpi elongate, club of apical joint more than half the length of 

 peduncle. Prothorax much longer than wide, with a moderate 

 and somewhat curved subbasal impression, dilated in places by 

 five feeble fovese, of which the lateral ones are oblique and almost 

 isolated. Elytra much shorter than abdomen, much wider than 

 long; sutural and discal striae distinct, the latter strongly curved 

 and continuous. Basal segment of abdomen, on undersurface of 

 first segment, with a wide, shallow, median, longitudinal impres- 

 sion. Length 1|-1J mm. 



