752 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPHID.E, 



but anteniije longer and body with long clothing. The head' 

 from some directions appears to be feebly lobed, but there are no 

 distinct interocular tubercles. 



PSELAPHUS PULCHELLUS, n.sp. 



2. Bright reddish-castaneous, some parts darker. -Clothed with 

 long, straggling, dark setse, on the elytra (which are feebly 

 fringed at apex) confined to sides, and rather denser on apical 

 half of abdomen (where there are a few pale, short setse inter- 

 spersed) than elsewhere. Undersurface with dense white pubes- 

 cence at base of abdomen, on mesosternum and head. 



Head elongate, with a continuous median channel, interrupted: 

 in middle by a small granule; with two tubercles between eyes. 

 Antennfe rather long, first joint as long as second and third com- 

 bined, ninth and tenth rather long, their combined length dis- 

 tinctly more than that of eleventh. Palpi elongate, club of 

 apical joint one-third the length of peduncle. Prothorax dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide, base much wider than apex; with a 

 rather strong, subbasal impression, connecting five shallow foveee, 

 of which the lateral ones are deeper, longitudinal and almost 

 isolated. Elytra no shorter than abdomen, about as long as 

 wide, apex not twice the width of base; gutural and discal strise 

 distinct, the latter narrow, rather strongly curved and continuous 

 throughout. Length 2^ mm 



i/rt6. — Tasmania : Frankford(A. M. Lea) — New South "Wales : 

 Illawarra(H. J. Carter). 



A beautiful species, with long hair somewhat as in P. jnlosns 

 and the two preceding species, but otherwise very different. In 

 some respects close to P. longepiJosus, but head conspicuously 

 bituberculate and sides of prothorax not carinate. The elytra 

 are also without long hairs except at the sides. 



The elytra are brightly castaneous, but somewhat darker along 

 suture and apex, where the colour is much the same as that of 

 head and upper surface of abdomen; the prothorax is of a 

 chocolate-brown. The antennse are slightly paler than the head, 

 but darker than the legs, except that the knees are infuscated. 



