BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 771 



From eacli side of the head the male appears to be deeply 

 ■notched above the eye, with a conical tubercle iu front of the 

 notch. The lifth joint of antennae is slightly longer than any of 

 the three in front of or behind ir, l)ut the difference is not very 

 pronounced. 



ScniSTODACTYLUS BREVIPENNIS, n.sp. (Plate xxi., fig.lO). 



(J. Pale brownish-castaneous, appendages paler. Moderately 

 <;lothed with short pale pubescence. 



JIead(exc\ndmg neck) feebly transverse, with two small and 

 shallow interocular fovese; with dense clearly defined punctures. 

 Antennae long, passing middle coxfe, first joint cylindrical, longer 

 'than second and third combined, second longer than third, the 

 others to seventh feebly decreasing in size, eighth slightly wider, 

 ninth slightly longer and distinctly wider than eighth, tenth 

 slightly wider than ninth, eleventh subovate, longer than ninth 

 and tenth combined. Prothorax about as long as greatest width, 

 which is near apex, sides thence regularly decreasing in width to 

 base; non-foveate; punctures as on head. Elytra very short, 

 strongly dilated from base to apex; subsutural stria on each com- 

 mencing in a feeble fovea, and regular to apex; the dorsal stria 

 also commencing in a feeble fovea, distinct to beyond the middle, 

 .aii,d traceable almost to apex; punctures almost as on prothorax. 

 Abdomen almost twice the length of elytra, and about middle 

 much wider; second segment largest of all; with small dense 

 punctures; under surface feebly convex along middle, the sub- 

 apical segment with a small fovea. Metasternum impressed along 

 middle; with fairly distinct punctures. Front trochanters each 

 with a long thin tooth or spine; femora stout, the front ones 

 each with a tooth as its trochanter; tibise thin, apex curved; tarsi 

 with basal joint short, second much longer, third about the 

 length of second, commencing close to its base, instead of from 

 its apex, and terminated by two small claws. Length 1^-2^ mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: New Norfolk, in tussocks; Lauuceston, 

 Wai'atah(A. M. Lea). 



