BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 841 



•extending backwards from scutellum to apical fifth, a little wider 

 and extending on to third interstice near apex; also a lateral 

 vitta on each elytron, this lateral vitta narrow, but a little 

 variable in width and length. 



Head broad( 1 •4mm. across eyes), depressed, minutely shagreened 

 and punctate under a lens; eyes large, prominent. Prothorax 

 transverse(ri5 X 2 mm.), widest a little before middle, hardly 

 narrower at apex(r6mm.) than at base(l-7 mm.), shagreened, 

 minutely punctulate; lateral margins explanate, not coarsely 

 punctate; sides roundly subangulate and setigerous at widest 

 part, lightly narrowed (hardly subsinuate) posteriorly; apex lightly 

 and widely emarginate; anterior angles wide, obtuse; base shortly 

 lobed in middle, oblique on each side; basal angles marked, obtuse 

 at summit; median line strongly impressed. Elytra subquadrate 

 (4-1 X 3-2 mm.), broadest behind middle, rounded on sides- 

 humeral angle rounded, inner humeral angle widely rounded. 

 'Length 6-3-6-8, breadth 3-3-2 mm. 



Hab. — Dorrigo (plentiful under bark, on the trunks of 

 Eucalypts). 



This species resembles A, cribripennis Chaud., but is larger 

 and differs conspicuously by the prothorax with only two setse 

 on 'each side, not strongly sinuate on sides posteriorly, basal 

 angles not acutely rectangular, lateral margins not coarsely 

 punctate; elytra far more finely punctulate, etc. 



Philoplceus luculextus Newman, var. guttifera, var.nov. 



Compared with specimens from Monbulk, Victoria (about 30 

 miles east from Melbourne), which evidently represent the typical 

 form of Ph. hiculentus Newm., var. guttifera agrees in facies (the 

 .prothorax has the lateral margins a little narrower before the 

 anterior marginal puncture, and the anterior angles a little more 

 marked); but differs by prothorax slightly inf uscate on disc, elytra 

 with a finer puncturation; also, by pattern of elytra. Ph. lucu- 

 lentus has the elytra piceous-black, with a large antemedian 

 space on each elytron, and the apex testaceous; the antemedian 

 .space broader than long, extending across interstices 2-7, much 



