440 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



EupiNES CONCOLOR Sharp. 



There are, before me, three specimens from Victoria, and 

 five from South Australia, that appear to belung to this 

 species. Sharp described the second ventral segment as hav- 

 ing a small tubercle at its apex ; the males now under exami- 

 nation have a small tubercle, but it is not at the extreme tip 

 of the segment (as in several other species having the second 

 segment tuberculate or fasciculate), but at about one-fonrth 

 from the tip. 



The female (unknown to both Sharp and Raffray) differs 

 from the male in having the tenth joint of the antennae much 

 smaller, the abdomen convex and non-tuberculate on its 

 undcr-sufface, and the metasternum with a smaller and 

 shallower depression. 



Var. Adelaidensis, n. var. — Mr. TI. H. D. Griffith has 

 sent numerous specimens from Adelaide, that appear to repre- 

 sent a variety of this species. They agree exactly in all struc- 

 tural details with the typical form, but differ in having the 

 head and basal two-thirds of abdomen (both surfaces) varying 

 from rather lightly infuscate to black. The metasternum also 

 is sometimes as dark as the abdomen, but occasionally is no 

 darker than the elytra. 



EUPINODA HIRTICEPS, n.Sp. 



(J. Dark castaneous-brown; elytra briglit castaneous, but suture, 

 base, and apex infuscated: legs, palpi, and two apical joints of 

 antennai flavous. Head with rather dense, pale hairs; abdomen 

 sparsely pubescent, elsewhere with a few rather long hairs. 



Head wide, with a strong median carina, apparently foveate 

 towards base. Antennje long and thin, ninth joint rather small but 

 about twice the size of eighth, tenth about twice as long as ninth, 

 and produced on one side of apex, eleventh ovate. Prothorax almost 

 as long as wide, sides rather strongl}' inflated in front of the 

 middle. Elytra rather large, slightly longer than wide; sutural 

 stria distinct, the dorsal represented by a feeble basal impression; 

 impunctate. Metasteriium impressed along middle. Under- 



