BY ARTHUR M. L£A. 467 



Hyleccetus vigilans, n.sp. (Plate xvii., fig. 8). 



Head blackish, prothorax and scutellum reddish-castane- 

 ous ; elytra reddish-testaceous; undcr-surface and appendages 

 paler. With moderately dense, short, depressed pubescence, 

 becoming erect on eyes. 



Head very densely punctate. Eyes large, projecting later- 

 ally, almost touching along middle. Antennae with third 

 joint moderately long and triangular, fourth to tenth each 

 rather strongly produced to one side, eleventh almost as long 

 as ninth and tenth combined. I'rntJiorar longer than wide, 

 front angles strongly rounded, sides widest near apex, thence 

 oblique to base ; with very dense punctures, denser and 

 smaller on an obtusely raised medio-basal space than else- 

 where. Scitfel/iim longer than wide, apex feebly notched ; 

 with very dense punctures. Elytra about four or five times as 

 long as wide, punctures smaller and less crowded than on 

 prothorax : each with three feeble costae, of which the outer 

 one is very faint. Ler/x long and thin. Length, 18 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Little Mulgrave River (H. Hacker). 



The projection of the eyes at the sides causes the base of 

 the head to appear as a wide neck ; they almost touch for 

 about one-half their length, so that the part of the head 

 between them appears as a triangle, with its apex narrowly 

 produced. The only specimen before me had a process from 

 the tip of tne abdomen that was possibly an ovipositor, 

 although the approximation of the eyes would appear to be 

 masculine. I'he eleventh joint is of rather curious shape, and 

 appears almost like two joints soldered together — a basal one, 

 somewhat like the tenth, and an apical cone-shaped one. The 

 eyes are much larger and closer together than those of any 

 previously described Australian species. 



Hyleccetus australis Er. 



This species varies in length from 7^ to 12^ mm. The 

 prothoracic impression, although fairly wide, is usually faint. 



