758 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAX PSELAPHID^E, 



the second joint is long, with the basal half thin and strongly 

 curved, and the apex inflated, third short and subovate, but pro- 

 duced at apex into a long and thin spur, fourth thin at tlie base 

 and dilated towards apex. The medio-basal prothoracic impres- 

 sion is not very distinct. 



Palimbolus frater, n.sp. 



(J. Reddish-castaneous, appendages paler, upper surface of head^ 

 prothorax, and abdomen dark brown or black, shoulders and 

 apex of elytra and knees more or less infuscated. With rather 

 dense pubescence, paler on under than on upper surface. 



Head with a wide and rather shallow fovea close to each eye, 

 a feeble medio-basal impression, and a deep frontal one. Antennae 

 comparatively stout, first joint as long as .second and third com- 

 bined, second to eighth feebly decreasing in length but of even 

 width, ninth strongly transverse and wider than eighth, tenth 

 slightly longer and wider than ninth, eleventh ovate, almost as 

 long as eighth to tenth combined. Prothorax slightly longer 

 than wide, with a deep medio-basal impression, narrowly con- 

 nected with extreme base, each side with a strong impression, 

 somewhat dilated near base, interrupted near middle and trace- 

 able almost to apex. Elytra about as long as wide; with four 

 small basal fovefe and numerous minute punctures. Metasternum 

 with a wide shallow median impression. Undersurface of abdo- 

 men with a wide shallow impression, common to four .segments. 

 Middle trochanters strongly, the hind ones very feebly, armed; 

 hind tibise with a short, subapical spur. Length 2|-3 mm. 



Q. Differs in having somewhat thinner antennse, metasternum 

 flat along middle, abdomen gently convex on undersurface^ and 

 legs unarmed. 



H<ib. — Tasmania : New Norfolk, in tussocks of grass (A. M. 

 Lea). 



In general appearance very close to the species described by 

 Ratfray as P. Victorice of King, but the male with thinner 

 antennae, the apical joint of which is without an oblique impres- 

 sion on its undersurface, abdomen without an obtuse tubercle 



