592 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



reddish-brown; in many there is a reddish tinge along the suture. 

 The protliorax usually has either a feeble median line or a feeble 

 carina, and is rarely without either. Mr. Olliff in the Agricultural 

 Gazette of ISTew South Wales, Vol. vi. (1895), in a plate facing 

 p. 261, has given an excellent figure of this insect. 



L. IMMUNDUS, Bohem. Ilab. — Galston, N.S.W. 



Lixus Tasmanicus, Germ. (Linn. Ent. iii. 1848, p. 220). — Of 

 this species (originally described from Adelaide) Mr. Pascoe says* 

 " I have specimens from Victoria, West Australia and Queens- 

 land." I have not been able to identify the species myself. It 

 is omitted from the Catalogue. 



Subfamily AMALACTIDES. 

 Tranes xanthorrhce^. n.sp. 



(J. Of a flattened form; black, shining; legs and antennfe dark 

 reddish-brown. Upper surface with veiy minute sparse whitish 

 scales or setse, more noticeable on elytra than elsewhere; under 

 surface and legs with more distinct scales though still very small. 



Head densely punctate, punctures small and shallow; a small 

 distinct fovea between eyes . Eyes separated beneath by a narrow, 

 impunctate, wedge-like space. Rostrum almost straight; densely 

 punctate, punctures moderately large, confluent at sides, decreas- 

 ing towards apex; slightly swollen at antennse. Antennai rather 

 short ; scape almost the length of funicle and club combined, 

 inserted one-third from apex of rostrum, and one-third of its length 

 passing apex; funicle thick, basal joint shorter than two following 

 combined. Protliorax about as wide as long, sides rounded, 

 greatly narrowed towards apex, apex constricted, slightly raised, 

 about one-half the width of base, base bisinuate; median line 

 feebly marked; rather densely and moderately strongly punctate, 

 the punctures at the sides becoming much denser and shallower, 

 and on the flanks of the prosternum confluent. Scutellum small, 

 transverse, punctate. Elytra about thrice the length of prothorax 



* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 187-4, p. 384. 



