554 NEAV SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



sion; this must certainly be a mistake, as Mr. Newman describes 

 it as having two; it is possibly Pascoe's equiniis or tceniatus. 



Penthelispa polita, n.sjD. 



Highly polished; piceous-red or reddish-piceous, apical joint of 

 antennte and elytra red, the latter with the suture, or the sutui-e 

 and 1st, or 1st and 2nd interstices tinged with piceous. 



Head densely punctate; a deep round punctate fovea on each 

 side between eyes and antenna. Antennse short, thick, not 

 extending to anterior coxjb. ProtJiorax longer than wide, very 

 little wider in front than behind, the anterior angles slightly 

 produced, the posterior rounded; moderately densely and strongly 

 punctate; with a narrow impunctate space along the median line, 

 on each side of which is a very shallow impression. Scutellum 

 transverse, impunctate. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax, 

 parallel-sided to near apex; suture wide, slightly widening to and 

 depressed at base, with a row of extremely minute punctures; 

 striate-puncta,te, punctures moderately large but obscure; inter- 

 stices rounded, impunctate. Under surface strongly but not 

 densely punctate, apical segment of abdomen transversely concave. 

 Length 3|-45, width |-f mm. 



Hah. — Tweed River, Glen Innes, Forest Reef s, Clifton, "Windsor, 

 Sydney, N.S.W. 



A very highly polished species of somewhat variable colour; 

 the prothorax varies from a dark red to almost black; the elytral 

 suture is usually but not always tinged with piceous. 



Penthelispa pice a, n.sp. 



Shining; piceous; legs and antennye paler, palpi red. 



Read densely and strongly punctate; frontal fovese longer than 

 wide, punctate and with a small tubercle in the middle. Antennae 

 short, thick, not much longer than the distance between their 

 bases. Prothorax longer than wide, sides slightly incurved, 

 scarcely, if at all, wider in front than behind, the anterior and 

 posterior angles slightly produced and the latter acute; strongly 



