780 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



striatis, stria abbreviata suturali vix manifesta, interstitiis 

 minus planis, iiiterstitio 3° pone medium puncto setifero 

 instructo ; tarsis posticis minus elongatis. 



[Long. 2i, lat. 1 line (vix). 

 The small size of this species together with its short broad 

 build, strongly striate elytra, impunctulate prothorax, compara- 

 tively short hind tarsi, &c., will at once distinguish it from its 

 congeners. 



Mountains of Victoria. 



Thenarotes discoidalis, Blackb. 



In my original notice of this species (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. 

 1887, p. 184) I mentioned an insect which appeared to me to be 

 a small dark variety for which I proposed the name "mmor,var. ?" 

 Recently I have found on the mountains of Victoria what I take 

 to be another variety of the same species diffei'ing from the type 

 in respect of size and colouring, but presenting no other tangible 

 distinction that I can discover. It is possible that these forms 

 represent in reality several distinct closely allied species, — and 

 they differ I think markedly enough to be entitled to a var. 

 name, — but I think it more probable that they are simply local 

 races of a single type. The following descx'iption will distinguish 

 the form before me. 



Var. ? nigricornis. Antennis (articulis basalibus 2 exceptis) 

 nigro-piceis ; elytris piceis, marginibus (basi excepta) anguste 

 rufis. [Long, li lines. 



I may add that the posterior angles of the prothorax seem a 

 trifle more markedly defined, and the basal region of the same 

 segment seems a little more coarsely and less closely punctured 

 than in the type. 



Notophilus montanus, sp.nov. 



Sat nitidus ; piceus ; antennarutn basi, capite (parte inter 

 oculos nonnullis exemplis excepta), prothorace, sutura, pedi- 

 busque, plus minus dilutioribus ; prothorace postice quam 

 antice vix angustiori ; elytris (stria suturali excepta) vix 

 manifeste striatis. [Long. 1-1 ^^ lines. 



