616 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



(for the genus) rather long; tibise almost straight, the anterior 

 with numerous small teeth beneath, intermediate with three,, 

 posterior with two. Length 6^, width 2| mm. 



Hah. — N.W. Australia (Macleay Museum). 



Somewhat resembles scii/rus, hut may be distinguished by its 

 considerably larger size, less parallel-sided and differently coloured 

 elytra, longer legs, and the callosity on 4th interstice. 



Syarbis simulans, n.sp. 



Short, broad, less convex than usual. Black or dark red T 

 Densely covered with a muddy ochreous pollinosity, and appa- 

 rently rather densely clothed with small whitish scales which 

 become moderately elongate on under surface. 



Head with a feebly impressed line; eyes comparatively large, 

 transversely elliptic. Rostrum thick, subparallel, longer than 

 head. Profhorax scarcely transverse, sides almost straight, base 

 considerably wider than apex; densely granulate and punctate, 

 apparently with a raised median line. SctifeUnm elongate, elliptic. 

 Elytra considerably wider than prothorax and not thrice its 

 length, shoulders oblique; each with ten rows of deep, I'ound 

 and rather large, partially concealed punctures ; interstices 

 apparently wider than punctures and slightly rounded; no discal 

 callosity; sides slightly thickened at about the position of the 

 posthumeral tubercle in Gonipterus. Mesosternvm produced 

 between coxse almost as in Oxyops. Leys rather short and thick; 

 tibiae with numerous small teeth beneath. Length 6. width 3 mm. 



Hab.—'Sew South Wales (Mr. G. Masters). 



A very interesting species, strongly resembling O. uniformis 

 (ante), agreeing in many respects with the smaller species of 

 Oxyops, but with the clawless tarsi of Syarbis (under a powerful 

 lens there appears to be a rudimentary claw-joint embedded in 

 the 3rd joint of the posterior tarsi). It is the only pollinose 

 species I am acquainted with in the genus; the exudation is so 

 dense as to entirely conceal the derm and hide the finer details 

 of its sculpture. 



