452 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Hab. — New South Wales: Blue Mountains, Sydney (E. W. 

 Ferguson). 



The sculptui'c of the prothorax is more or less obscured by 

 the clothing. The base of the head, when viewed from behind, 

 appears to rise above the prothorax in the form of four more 

 or less conical tubercles. The two specimens before me are 

 evidently of but one sex ; and, despite the unarmed legs, are 

 probably males. The one from Sydney differs from the type 

 in being paler (its elytra are almost flavous), the eleventh 

 joint of antennae paler than tenth, and the clothing sparser 

 and paler. 



Tyromorphus flavimanus, n.sp. 



cT- Reddish-castaneous ; club infuscate, palpi and tarsi 

 flavous. With very short, pale pubescence. 



Head rather strongly transverse, not including the eyes, 

 about as long as wide ; with a small fovea on each side slightly 

 in advance of eyes, front depressed in middle. Antennae ex- 

 tending to about middle of elytra ; first joint about as long as 

 second and third combined, second slightly larger than third, 

 third to eighth subequal, ninth and tenth subequal and con- 

 siderably larger than eighth ; eleventh ovate, about as long as 

 ninth and tenth combined, and somewhat wider. Prothorax 

 almost as lung as wide, widest near apex, sides thence feebly 

 decreasing in width to base, with numerous small but clearly 

 defined punctures; with a small medio-basal fovea. Elytra 

 lightly transverse, each with the sutural stria distinct, the 

 dorsal deep at base and continued to beyond the middle ; 

 with feeble but rather dense punctures. Metasfernuni widely 

 excavated along middle ; the excavation continued on abdo- 

 men almost to its apex. Middle trochanters with a wide tri- 

 angular tooth ; middle tibiae forked at apex. Length, 2 (vix) 

 mm. 



Hab. — N. S. Wales: Blue Mountains (E. W. Ferguson). 



Readily distinguished from T. 7ngricoi-nis by the ventral 

 excavation and middle legs. P. hevis has the middle tibiae 



