BY ARTHUK M. LEA. I.'?."^ 



Batrisodes laticollis, n.sp. 



cf. Flavous. With rather long pale hairs. 



Ilea,! rather convex, and with a feeble median carina: near 

 each eye with a round fovea opening out in front ; antenn^ry 

 ridges very conspicuous; punctures rather indistinct An- 

 tennas long and rather thin, second joint( as viewed from the 

 side) distinctly shorter than first, third and fourth shortest of 

 all, seventh slightly longer than sixth or eighth, ninth and 

 tenth each almost as long as seventh and eighth combined, 

 eleventh longer and wider. Prothorax decidedly transverse, 

 suddenly inflated at apical third, the inflated space rather 

 densely punctate ; from middle of disc, which is notched, to 

 apex irregularly sculptured ; towards each side with a dis- 

 tinctly impressed line, commencing near the base in a fovea, 

 an irregular subbasal median fovea connected with the lateral 

 ones, its sides marked by two feeble tubercles ; at extreme base 

 with a few small fove;e. Elytra about as long as wide ; shoul- 

 ders oblique, and scarcely armed ; dorsal striae not traceable 

 to middle, but towards base very distinct : punctures sparse 

 and small. Abdomen with a few feeble tubercles obscuring 

 the impressions at base of upper surface ; flattened along 

 middle of under-surface, apex with a small fovea. J^f'f/s long 

 and apparently unarmed. Length 2 (vix) mm. 



Ilab. — New South Wales (type in Macleay Museum). 



i'he apex o*^ the prothorax, at a glance, seems somewhat as 

 in B apicicollis, but is essentially different : the prothorax 

 itself is decidedly wider, the punctate latero-frontal spaces are 

 less convex and less rounded : the elytra are shorter, with 

 rather more di.stinct punctures, au<l with more deeply im- 

 pressed striae. Ti^ere is also a considerable difference in colour, 

 although this may be individual rather than specific. At 

 first, it almost appears to be a small pale form of B. gibbicollis, 

 but the prothorax of that species, when viewed from behind, 

 appears to have a deep basal fovea, in front of which is an 

 elevated ridge that terminates (at the notch) in advance of the 



