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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 



COLEOPTERA. 



By Arthur M. Lka. 



Part IX. 



(Plate xvii.) 



Family STAPHYLINID^. 



ffiDICHIRUS OENICULATUS, 11. Sp. 



Head, prothorax, and mesosternum red; elytra, abdomen, and 

 metastenium black: appendages (knees infuscated) flavous. With 

 rather stiff scattered setae or hairs. 



Head somewhat wider than long, gently convex, with fairly 

 large, scattered punctures. Antenna thin, extending almost to 

 tip of elytra. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, slightly wider 

 than head, widest at about the apical fourth, thence oblique to 

 near base, which is rounded ; with moderately numerous distinct 

 punctures, most of which are in irregular longitudinal series. 

 Elytra shorter and narrower than prothorax, sides rounded, apex 

 incurved to middle; Avith punctures the size of those on prothorax, 

 but more evenly distributed. Abdomen long, and tipped with 

 two acute spines; four basal segments with dense and coarse 

 punctures, except at their tips, the two apical segments with 

 smaller punctures. Legs rather long, fi'ont tarsi strongly inflated. 

 Length 7, to apex of elytra 2i mm. 



Ilab. — Victoria : Timboon(H. W. Davey). 



Close to (E. rubricollis, and (E. tricolor; from the former, dis- 

 tinguished by its much paler legs and i-ed head; and, from the 

 latter (to Avhich it is closer), by its black elytra. 



ScoP.EUS ROTUNOicoLLis Macl.(now SuNius). 



I have recently examined the type of this species. It is a 



S'linius, close to *S'. brevicollis, but slightly smaller, and with the 



markings on the elytra of one specimen confined to the basal 



third; and, on the other, to the basal two-thirds; the antennae 



