BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 763- 



Palimbolus MiRANDUS Sharp. 



'['here are three males from Victoria( Victorian Alps and Bright) 

 before me, which appear to belong to this species, referred by 

 Sharp, with doubt, to Tyrus. Sharp does not mention the front 

 femora, but in the specimens under consideration these are fairly- 

 stout, curved, and from some directions appear concave oia the 

 lower or inner surface. The hind tibiee are spinose near the apex,^ 

 the spine being at the same position as in P. Victorice; but of very 

 different shape from that of that species. 



Tyromorphus speciosus King*(Plate xxi.,fig.8). 



(J. Dark reddish-castaneous, palpi somewhat paler. With fine 

 pale pubescence, denser on abdomen than elsewhere. 



Head longer than wide; with two large round interocular fovese, 

 and with a depression between antennary ridges; with moderately 

 distinct punctures. Eyes very prominent. Antennte long, first 

 joint cylindrical, slightly longer than second and third combined, 

 third distinctly longer than second, slightly longer than fourth 

 and seventh, and the length of fifth and sixth, eighth short, ninth 

 stouter and about twice as long as eighth, tenth slightly stouter 

 and slightly shorter than ninth, eleventh elliptic-ovate, almost as 

 long as ninth and tenth combined. Palpi rather long, first joint 

 very short, second almost as long as third and fourth combined, 

 its basal third thin, the apical two-thirds subelliptic, third about 

 half the length of fourth and not much longer than wide, fourth 

 elongate-subelliptic, not thin at the base, with an apical seta. 

 Frothorax strongly convex, distinctly longer than wide; with 

 tliree subbasal fovete, a shallow one on each side, and a smaller 

 but deeper one in middle; with dense punctures. Elytra strongly 

 convex, not as long as wide, sides moderately rounded; dorsal 



*I had the description of this species written out as new when fortunately 

 I was enabled to examine the type( 7'y?'us of King) King's description is 

 utterly misleading, as all he says of the third abdominal segment is " postice 

 angulato"; and he omits any reference to the remarkable characters of the 

 metasternum, although part of the less remarkable leg-armature is noted. 



