742 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



species evidently does not belong to Phyllotocidium. Viewed at 

 right angles the labrum is seen to be of exactly the same length 

 as the clypeus, although not so wide, but from behind it ap 

 pears to be much shorter. The elytral vittae of the male are of 

 a rather dingy flavous and distinct to the naked eye, but are 

 not sharply limited; they extend from the base to near the 

 apex in slightly oblique directions, covering from three to five 

 interstices; on the female they are scarcely indicated; on both, 

 the middle of the metasternum (narrowly in front, widely be- 

 hind) is somewhat flavous, but the paler parts of the legs 

 are very obscure. 



Phyllotocus bilobus, n.sp. 



Dark brown; head and prothorax almost black, elytra obscure 

 reddish-brown, the suture and sides slightly darker. Pro- 

 thorax and elytra fringed with whitish setae, similar setae on 

 under-surface and legs. 



Head flat, and with small, dense, asperate punctures. Clypeus 

 at base more than four times as wide as the median length, 

 base bisinuate, apex very feebly incurved and slightly up- 

 turned, sides somewhat sinuous; punctures slightly coarser than 

 between eyes; labrum moderately upturned in front, and slight- 

 ly but distinctly bilobed. Antennae eight-, club three-jointed 

 Prothorax about once and one half as wide as long, basal two- 

 thirds parallel-sided, base gently and widely rounded in middle, 

 front angles produced and acute, the hind ones rectangular; 

 punctures not very dense and small but sharply denned, a few 

 larger ones margining apex and a few on disc. Elytra parallel- 

 sided to beyond the middle; striae well-defined but irregular 

 and not very deep, their contained punctures mostly ill-defined. 

 Abdomen small and curved to tip. Sides of hind coxae at 

 least one-fourth longer than metasternum; front tibiae with two 

 strong teeth and a small obtuse one; all claws simple, the 

 front ones shorter than the others. Length, 4.5 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Sydney. 



The type is structurally very close to P. antennalis and P. 

 obscurns; at first glance it looks like a small specimen of one 

 of the dingy forms of P. moestus, but the clypeus and labrum 

 are very different to these parts in that species, and there are 

 many other differences of the body and appendages. From 

 the side each hind angle of the prothorax is seen to be a right 



