744 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xii., 



The genus is now first recoi^ded from Tasmania; the species is 

 alHed to E. mimulus, but the elytra are non-fasciate and pro- 

 thorax himaculate. The spots on the prothorax are large, 

 blackish-brown, slightly nearer the base than apex, and slightl}- 

 nearer the sides than middle^ the long hairs on the antenna^ do 

 not extend beyond the sixth joint, on the elytra the clothing is 

 sparser and paler than on the prothorax. The elytral punctures 

 are not in regular series; although with an irregular lineate 

 arrangement in i^laces, they are coarsest at about one-fifth from 

 the base; at about one-fifth from tlie apex, there is a feebly 

 elevated (somewhat purplish) irregular transverse elevation, im 

 mediately beyond which the punctures deci'ease in size. 



Earinus humeralis, n.sp. 



Flavous; head between eyes, clypeus, a large spot on each side 

 of middle of prothorax, scutellum, shoulders, apex and a post- 

 median fascia on elytra, mesosternum, most of metasternum, legs 

 (base of femora and parts of coxje excepted) and antennte (base 

 of third, fourth, and fifth joints excepted) black or blackish. 

 Clothed with long, straggling, blackish and ashen hairs; elytra, 

 in addition, with short, pale, aiid rather sparse pubescence. 



Head with verj' dense and rather coarse punctures, but becom- 

 ing sparser and smaller on clypeus; median line narrow and deep. 

 Antennae moderately thin, four basal joints shining and with 

 distinct punctures, third joint slightly longer than first and much 

 longer than fourth, fifth distinctly longer than fourth and sixth, 

 eleventh longer than tenth. Prothorax with basal and apical 

 fourths comparatively narrow and parallel-sided, the intervening 

 space strongly dilated towards base, but abruptly narrowed 

 before same; with punctures varying from sparse and small to 

 moderately dense and coarse. Elytra very little wider than 

 widest part of prothorax, moderately narrowed to basal third; 

 with dense and rather coarse punctures, becoming smaller pos- 

 teriorly, and much sparser on shoulders and about extreme base. 

 Legs moderately long, and with distinct punctures. Length, 

 10 mm. 



