BY A. M. LEA. 741 



directions, however, parts of it appear to be slightly iridescent), 

 and the tooth or flange on each hind femur is larger and trun- 

 cated : there is also a curious little tubercle on the metasternum 

 that does not occur on luridus. From behind the elytra ap- 

 pear opaque, with the striae and their contained punctures 

 much smaller than they really are. 



Phyllotocus OBSCURrs, n.sp. 



c? Dark brown, two obscurely defined elytral vittae and parts 

 of under surface and of legs paler. Prothorax and elytra 

 fringed with whitish hairs, similar ones on under surface and 

 legs. 



Head flattened in front and with small, sharply defined 

 punctures, becoming crowded on clypeus. Clypeus more than 

 five times as wide as long, hind suture somewhat irregular, 

 front and side margins gently upturned; apex of labrum 

 slightly more upturned than apex of clypeus. Antennae eight-, 

 club three-jointed, lamellae almost as long as the five basal 

 joints combined. Prothorax about one-fourth wider than long, 

 basal half parallel-sided, front angles produced and acute, the 

 hind ones rounded off; punctures distinct but sparser and 

 smaller than on head between eyes. Elytra comparatively 

 short, with fairly deep striae containing large punctures; inter- 

 stices gently convex, those near the suture wider than the 

 others, all with small punctures. Sides of bind coxae slightly 

 shorter than metasternum; hind femora stout and unarmed; 

 front tibiae with two strong teeth, and a third vaguely indi- 

 cated; front claws unequal. Length, 6 mm. 



9 Differs in being slightly smaller, prothorax more trans- 

 verse, abdomen larger, lamellae of antennae slightly shorter, 

 front tibiae with the third tooth small but distinct, and front 

 claws simple. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Galston (A. M. Lea). 



The types, one of each sex, in general appearance are like 

 dark specimens of P. antennalis, but the antennae have one less 

 joint, the third and fourth joints are very differently propor- 

 tioned, and the club is composed of but three lamellae. The 

 larger front claw of the male has a large sharply triangular ap- 

 pendix, so placed that from certain directions the claw appears 

 strongly bifid ; the middle tarsi are missing from the type male, 

 but as the front ones are without long quill-like appendages the 



