142 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Mnionophilus iiorkidus, n.sp. 



Widely ovate and convex, reddish-brown, underside opaque 

 brown, antenna 1 and tarsi pale red; whole surface shagreened and 

 pilose with sparse, upright, spiny bristles. 



Head large, epistoma truncate, labrum emarginate, canthi 

 forming two large, convex lobes, eyes large, round, and 

 coarsely faceted ; antenna?: joint 1 long, stout and cylin- 

 drical, 2 clavate, as long as 1, 3 slender, ubconic, 4-8 gradually 

 shorter, more or less triangular, 9-10 cupuliform, 9 inter- 

 mediate in size between 8 and 10, 11 ovate-acuminate, one 

 and a half times as long as 10. Prothorax widely transverse, 

 widest at middle, explanate at apex and sides, truncate 

 at base; apex overhanging head, of uneven outline, notched 

 in middle, with about eight, strong, straight bristles pointing 

 forward; disc strongly raised, the middle part consisting of two 

 elongate, convex lobes, one on each side of medial depression: 

 surface pustulose, each pustule bearing a short, curled bristle, 

 margins more or less fiat, outlined by six broad teeth, each bear- 

 ing a spiny bristle, the space between the sixth tooth and the 

 truncate base forming an oblique, curved excision. Scutellum 

 not evident. Elytra: the base terminating in two dentate pro- 

 cesses, fitting the excision in the pronotum, thence obliquely 

 widening to a widely rounded, humeral callus, thence ovately 

 widening to behind half-way; apex abruptly and sharply pointed; 

 disc uneven, coarsely bristled, the sculpture near suture consist- 

 ing of large punctures in a longitudinal arrangement, with six 

 large, conical nodules, four of these on the apical declivity, and 

 two wide, sinuous costse starting from middle of base and more 

 or less continued obliquely outwards, derm with two kinds of 

 bristles, the closer kind short and- curved, the sparser long and 

 upright. Underside and legs with short, white bristles, tibia? 

 not serrated. Dimensions : 3 mm. long (vix) x 1| mm. wide. 



Hah. — Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. 



Three specimens taken by Mr. Lea by sifting moss from trees; 

 also in Coll. Simson. A spikv insect; the anterior angle of the 

 prothorax consists of the widest of the six lateral teeth referred 



