BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 753 



Tlie palpi are almost flavous, but with the upper surface of the 

 club as dark as the rest of the head. From some directions the 

 tubercles between the eyes are very conspicuous, and from others 

 there appear to be two conspicuous tubercles between the bases 

 of the antennse. 



PsELAPHOPnus BiNODOsus, n.sp. 



^. Reddish-castaneous; upper surface, except elytra, darker; 

 palpi flavous. Clothed with fine, recurved, dusky pubescence. 



Head with a fairly deep but rather small fovea close to each 

 eye; antennary ridges separated by a shallow depression. Antennse 

 rather thin, passing middle coxse, first Joint fairly stout, as long 

 (when seen from below)as the two following joints combined, second 

 slightly longer than third, third to eighth small and subequal, 

 ninth larger and subglobular, tenth larger again, eleventh some- 

 what iri-egularly ovate. Prothorax about as long as wide, gently 

 Increasing in width to near apex, near base with a strong and 

 slightly curved impression; marked with a few indistinct punc- 

 tures in middle, and terminated on each side by a short, deep, 

 longitudinal impression. Elytra wider than long, each with a 

 strong sutural, and a strong curved discal stria, becoming sub- 

 foveate at bas^. Abdomen with second segment large, and on 

 undersurface with a shallow median impression (scarcely a fovea). 

 Metasternura with a large, but rather shallow apical impression. 

 Undersurface of head with two very distinct, round, flattened 

 tubercles. Femora stout, tibiae lightly curved. Length l|-2 mm. 

 9. Differs in having undersurface of abdomen convex, meta- 

 sternum narrowly impressed in middle of apex, femora thinner, 

 and tibije straighter. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Burnie, Frankford (A. M. Lea). 



Larger and wider than /'. clavatus, P. unicolor, or P. bicolor 

 and sculpture of head somewhat different. From the description 

 and figure of P. atriventris, the absence of a single large inter- 

 ocular fovea at once distinguishes it. On one specimen the upper 

 surface of abdomen (except the margins) is blackish-brown. 

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