834 CAKABID^ FROM DORRIGO, N.S.W., 



specimens examined, three had spinules and two were without. 

 Eight specimens of var. ceneomicans showed none with spinules; 

 and in var. crenulata, also, the onychium was glabrous. 



Hypharpax nitens, n sp. 



Robust, convex; prothorax subquadrate, posterior angles sub- 

 rectangular; elytra lightly striate, humeral angles dentate, inter- 

 stices depressed, second with a light striole at base, third 

 unipunctate just behind posterior three-fourths. Nitid, but 

 minutely shagreened; of a dark bronzy colour, submetallic oni 

 elytra; head black; prothorax black, with a faint greenish-bronzy 

 tinge; tibise testaceous towards base; antennse infuscate, basal 

 joint testaceous. 



Head stout, convex (2"1 mm. across eyes); prothorax broader 

 than long(2-l x ■2-5 mm.), lightly roundly narrowed to apex(2-15' 

 mm.), very little obliquely narrowed to base (2-3 mm.); apex 

 lightly emarginate; anterior angles rounded; basal angles decidedly 

 marked, though obtuse at summit. Elytra truncate-oval(4 2 x 3'1 

 mm.); interstices depressed, narrow and convex at apex; basal 

 border forming a short dentiform prominence at humeral angle. 

 Posterior tarsi short. In ^, four anterior tarsi with joints 2-4 

 dilatate and spongiose beneath; first joint subtriauguhtr, of 

 anterior tarsi with a few squamae beneath near apex, of middle 

 tarsi not squamose beneath. Length 7, breadth 3*1 mm. 



Hab. — Dorrigo. 



Two specimens ((J^) have been examined. It is allied io H. 

 rectangulus Chaud., and H. ovatus Ciiaud. From //. rectangiihis 

 (from a Tasmanian specimen) it differs by form shorter, more 

 convex; prothorax shorter, less deeply emarginate at apex, not 

 subsinuate on sides posterioi-ly, basal angles not rectangular; 

 elytra with interstices narrower and more convex at apex; tibiae 

 not so darkly coloured. From H. ovatus (as identified by me 

 from specimens from Queanbeyan and Muhvala, N. S. W.) it 

 differs by size larger; prothorax more rounded on sides, basal 

 angles more marked; elytra more nitid, interstices becoming 



