466 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Family LYMEXYLONID^. 

 Hyleccetus fuscipennis, n.sp. (Plate xvii., fig.7). 



$ . Reddish-castaneous, sides of prothorax infuscated, 

 elytra infuscated except about base, which is reddish-flavous ; 

 antennae, except three basal joints, and abdomen infuscated ; 

 meso- and metasternum and legs more or less flavous. With 

 very fine pubescence present, but less noticeable on eyes than 

 elsewhere. 



Head somewhat rounded, with a distinct neck, near base 

 depressed in middle ; with dense, clearly defined punctures. 

 Eyes moderately separated. Antennas with second joint 

 shorter than first ; third slightly longer than first, and as 

 long as fourth but slightly narrower ; foui'th to tenth sub- 

 triangular, vei-y feebly decreasing in size ; eleventh elongate- 

 ovate, not as long as the two preceding joints combined. Vro- 

 thorax distinctly longer than wide, sides, apex, and front 

 angles rounded, base bisinuate ; punctures rather smaller and 

 less crowded than on head. Srufelliu/i about as long as 

 wide ; with dense punctures. Elytra about four times as 

 long as wide, with small dense punctures ; each with three 

 feeble costae. Legs long and thin. Length, IH mm. 



^a&.— N.S.W. : Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). 



There are both sexes of the species before me, but the 

 female was described as the ma!e(7 mm. in length); and has both 

 antennae broken; of the joints that are left, the fourth to ninth 

 are produced more to one side than in the female, so as to be 

 subpectinate, rather than subtriangular ; its eyes are rather 

 closer together, but the difference in tliis respect is not 

 striking. The ovipositor of the type is extended, and measures 

 7^ mm. 



Readily distinguished from //. linearis, and H. pervagus, 

 by its partly dark elytra ; and from //. auxt ralis, by not being 

 uniformly dark. 



