BY A. Jr. LEA. 



739 



rather sparse punctures. Pygidium with minute punctures. 

 Legs long and thin; front tibiae tridentate, apical tooth long and 

 acute, second acute but much smaller, third very small and ill- 

 defined. Length, 9-10 mm. 



Hob. — Western Australia: Mullewa (Miss J. F. May). 



A long narrow species, nearer to T. clypealis than to T. 

 vitticollis, but front tibiae with the third tooth very feeble, and 

 elypeus gently incurved to middle (in shape it is intermediate 

 between that of the two other species). The club is three- 

 jointed on the two specimens before me, possibly indicating 

 that they are females. 



Phyllotocus fugitivus, n . sp . 



S" Black, front legs and claws more or less reddish. Pro- 

 thorax and elytra fringed with thin setae, similar, but more 

 numerous setae on under-surface and legs. 



Head with dense and comparatively coarse, crowded punc- 

 tures. Clypeus distinctly shorter than an eye, its sides lightly 

 upturned; labrurn about half the length of clypeus, its front 

 edge gently upcurved, truncated in middle, the angles widely 

 rounded off. Antennae eight-, club three-jointed, lamellae each 

 as long as the five basal joints combined. Prothorax about once 

 and two-thirds as wide as long, sides moderately rounded, apex 

 evenly incurved, with the front angles acute but not separately 

 produced, hind ones rounded off; punctures sparser, especially 

 in middle, and smaller than on head. Elytra punctate-striate, 

 the sutural stria on each suddenly deflected so as almost to 

 touch the suture at the summit of the apical slope. Sides of 

 hind coxae scarcely longer than metasternum, and each with 

 rather crowded punctures; hind femora stout; front tibiae tri- 

 dentate; front claws unequal, the larger one more strongly 

 curved than the other, and with a large basal appendix. 

 Length, 5.5-6 mm. 



Ilab. — New South Wales: Richmond River (W. W. Frog- 

 gatt). 



Structurally close to the following species, but with the hind 

 femora edentate; it is also allied to P. cribriceps, but is larger 

 and the prothorax appears to be opaque from most directions, 

 although slightly iridescent from others; the elytra also are 

 conspicuously iridescent from some directions, and opaque from 

 others; but on P. cribriceps the upper surface from all points 



