628 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Head large, flattened; with minute shining granules and pale 

 elongate scales; feebly f oveate between eyes. Rostrum about the 

 length of prothorax, broad, flat, coarsely punctate and very 

 minutely and densely punctate; without carina except at extreme 

 base ; sides feebly ridged and darker. Scape passing muzzle, 

 feebly curved; 1st joint of funicle large, as long as two following 

 combined. Prothorax not once and one-half wider at base than 

 apex, apex very feebly emarginate in the middle; base, except for 

 scutellar lobe, almost straight, a feeble median line; a very feeble 

 black fascicle on each side at apex and a few blackish scales 

 behind them scarcely forming fascicles ; straw-coloured scales 

 regularly dispersed. Scutellum small, subelliptic, with black 

 scales. Elytra not much wider than prothorax at base, shoulders 

 very feebly projecting, punctate-striate, punctui'es not very large, 

 and, except at sides, not close together; interstices feebly raised, 

 distinctly wider than punctures, on 3rd two feeble blackish 

 fascicles and on 5 th three, scales as on prothorax. Under surface 

 and legs with paler and shorter scales than above. Femora thick, 

 with a large recurved tooth and a smaller scarcely traceable one 

 below it; tibise bisinuate; claw-joint and claw squamosa, distinct. 

 Length 4i, width 2^ mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales (Mr. Kershaw, Senr.). 



The large head, great (comparative) width of apex of prothorax, 



and almost obsolete fascicles are sufliciently distinctive of this 



species; I do not know of any with which it can be satisfactorily 



compared; it might almost be referred to the section without 



fascicles. 



Haplonyx pulvinatus, n.sp. 



Reddish-brown, tinged with piceous on head, club, under surface 

 and base of femora; scutellum black. Head with brownish scales , 

 paler bordering eyes. Rostrum stout, almost parallel-sided, flat, 

 and a little longer than prothorax, punctate and squamose except 

 at its extreme apex; feebly carinate from a small ocular fovea to 

 antennal insertion. Scape distinctly passing muzzle; 1st joint of 

 funicle stout, not much longer than 2nd; club subovate. t'ro- 

 thorox with sparse brownish scales and two lateral oblique pale 



