144 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Enhtpnon laticeps, n.spi 



Ovate, opaque reddish-brown above, piceous beneatlj, antennae 

 and tarsi pale red. 



[lead very wide, epistoma short and square, cantlius wide and 

 protuberant, eyes very large, round, and coarsely faceted, fore- 

 head flat and asperate, antenna? with joint 1 long, stout, cylin- 

 dric; 2 subconic, as long as, but less stout than, 1; 3 subconic, 

 slender, not as long as 4-5 jointly; 4-5 subconic; 6-8 moniliform: 

 9 transverse, intermediate in width between Sand 10: 10 cupuli- 

 form, nearly twice as wide as 9; 11 ovate, as wide as 9 and 1^ 

 times as long. Prothorax very convex, subtruncate at base, at 

 apex produced forward and overlapping the head (as in A/ychestes), 

 and notched in the middle by the medial channel, anterior angles 

 obsolete, the sides enveloping the body, showing crenulations 

 formed by row of rounded knobs, posterior angles widely obtuse; 

 widest behind middle (here slightly wider than head); surface 

 pustulose and clothed with short, pale hair. Scutellum trian- 

 gular. Elytra as wide at base as prothorax, convex and widely 

 obovate, surface pustulose, with hairy clothing following the 

 lines of three faint costa? on each elytron, these terminating on 

 apical declivity in large nodules, the middle one in front of the 

 other two; abdomen covered with round, slightly raised, nodulose 

 impressions, legs beneath with sparse hairs, gular region smooth, 

 fore-tibia? strongly, mid- and hind-tibia? minutely serrated on 

 outside edge. Dimensions : 3 mm. long (vix) x 1^ wide. 



Hab. — Cradle Mountain, Strahan, and Waratah, Tasmania. 



Two specimens taken by Mr. Lea from moss are probably the 

 sexes, since, in one specimen, the joints forming the antennal 

 club are less widened. 



Types in Coll. Carter. 



Five more specimens since sent by Mr. Lea for examination, 

 from Strahan, show some variations in colour from pale red to 

 brown, while the apical nodules are variable in size. One of 

 these shows such variation as to suggest another species. 



Table of Australian Ulominie (including cosmopolitan genera recorded 



from Australia). 

 1(14) Antennae clavate (apical joint or joints abruptly enlarged). 

 2(11) Tibia? not denticulate on outside edge. 



