4:28 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



In addition to tlie specimens mounted on cardboard, there are 

 numerous others mounted as slides for the microscope, with the 

 names scratched on the glass. 



Many of the carded specimens were extremely dirty; I obtained 

 permission to float oiT and clean some of these, and note of them 

 as follows : — 



TycHUS OBLiQUUS King (now Eupines). 

 The types are males. The abdomen has a small tubercle near 

 the apex of the second segment on the under-surface. The legs, 

 at least the four hind ones, are unarmed, but I was unable to 

 examine the front ones very clearly on either specimen. The 

 tenth joint is very curious, being placed obliquely to the rest of 

 the antennae. There is also a male mounted as a slide. The 

 species is omitted from Raffray's recent monograph in Wytsman's 

 "Genera Insectorum." 



Eupines Victoui^ Ki"g- 

 The types are females. They appear to be partly dark speci- 

 mens of Eupines polita Km(;{B7'yaxis of King), judged by the 

 types of that species, and they agree in all details with female 

 specimens in my collection, identified as E. polita by Raffray. 



Eupine.s geminata King. 

 There are two specimens in the Collection, one certainly female, 

 the other probably so; but, on being floated off, its under-surface 

 was so dirty, that it could not be carefully scrutinised, and the 

 legs were so huddled together that thev could not be examined 

 for armature. 



Rytus corniger King. 

 In general appearance very close to R. Kimji, but much paler, 

 and with the elytral punctures smaller; it is also more sparsely 

 clothed. 



Batrisus CYCLOPS King (now Batrisodes). 

 Brtjaxis hirta Macl. 

 The types of these were compared side by side, and found to 

 be identical. King's is the older name. Raffray (Proc. Linn. 



