BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 781 



This minute species is coloured very differently from its 

 previously described congeners ; usually it is of a dark pitchy 

 brown tone with the lighter parts livid testaceous, but in some 

 specimens the lighter parts (especially the head and suture) are 

 nearly of the general colour. Compared with JV. 2}arvus, Blackb., 

 (which is about the same size), the prothorax is a little less 

 narrowed hindward so that its sides appear more evenly rounded, 

 it is less strongly depressed across the basal part, and its hind 

 angles are more rounded off. 



Mountains of Victoria. 



Amblytelus. 



The following species appear to be typical members of this 

 genus, having the mentum, tarsi, carina at external edge of hind 

 part of 7th elytral stria, &c., &c., as in A. curtus, Fab. Of 

 previously described species A. curtus, Fab., and vittatus, Motsch., 

 differ entirely in style of markings, while amiilipennis, Macl., is 

 much larger, and minutus, Macl., much smaller, — the latter two 

 moreover being described as unicolorous reddish-brown insects 

 with testaceous legs and antennse. 



Amblytelus inornatus, sp.nov. 



Ferrugineus, elytris (margine laterali, — et nonnullis exemplis 

 sutura, — exceptis) nigro-f uscis ; prothorace f ortiter transverso, 

 Isevigato, canaliculato, marginibus lateralibus late reflexis 

 fortiter rotundatis mox ante angulos posticos vix sinuatis, 

 his rectis ; elytris subtiliter striatis, striis subtiliter obsolete 

 punctulatis, interstitiis sat planis (marginali excepto) Isevi- 

 gatis. [Long. 3|-4, lat. If-lf lines. 



The prothorax is two-thirds again as wide as long and is a little 

 wider at the base than across the front margin, which is veiy 

 gently emarginate. The interstices of the elytral striae are not 

 quite so flat near the apex as near the base. 



Mountains of Victoria. 



