600 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTBRA, 



species will have to be reduced, but this is a woi'k that should be 

 done by an entomologist having access to his types. 



Subfamily GONIPTERIDES. 



Oxyops aa a genus is not very distinct from Gompterus, the 

 principal differences being that in Oxyops the metasternum is 

 produced between the anterior coxc-e, while in Gonipterus the 

 elytra have a more or less conical posthumeral tubercle. But 

 there are many intermediate forms ; still, as the species are 

 numerous, it is perhaps advisable to retain both names. Syarhis 

 is sufficiently distinct on account of its clawless tarsi and more 

 elongate form, but one species here described (S. simulans) has 

 all the appearance of O. uniformis. The right of Pantoreites 

 to a place in the subfamily seems doubtful. 



Oxyops uniformis, n.sp. 



(J. Piceous-brown, antennae — club excepted— reddish. Above 

 clothed with dingy brown scales, denser and longer on prothorax, 

 down the middle of which a pale stripe is formed and continued 

 on to scutellum- a few pale scales about apex of elytra, especially 

 on suture and sides of posterior declivity; under surface with 

 denser, longer and paler scales than upper. 



Head feebly granulate and punctate, an impression between 

 eyes which is continued on to rostrum; eyes large, almost round; 

 rostrum as long as head, base coarsely punctate, apex widened, 

 shining and almost smooth, 1st joint of funicle a little longer than 

 2nd. Proiliorax feebly transverse, granules small. Elytra 

 almost equally convex throughout, parallel-sided to near apex; 

 punctate-striate, punctures large, round, smaller towards apex; 

 interstices narrow, convex, nowhere suddenly elevated; shoulders 

 feebly rounded; apex submucronate. Mesosternal process slightly 

 produced. Base of abdomen depressed. Legs rather stout ; 

 tibial teeth small, almost obscured by setose scales; claw-joint 

 rather small. Length 5^, width 2^ mm. 



^. Differs in being larger (6 mm.), rostrum shorter, broader 

 and more evenly punctate throughout; and the eye smaller. 



Hah. — N.S.W.: Tamworth; a pair taken in cop. 



