744 NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xiv., 



a narrow gutter from the disc, and rather widely separated front 

 cox^e, read il}" distinguish the genus from Notosalpinyua, to which, 

 at first glance, the two species appear to belong. Type of genus, 

 T. quadrispilotais. 



Tasmosalpingus quadrispilotus, n.sp. 



Brassy-black; undersurface, legs, and antennae (club excepted) 

 paler, elytra piceous-brown, with four, large, pale spots. Head 

 and prothorax with distinct but somewhat straggling pubescence, 

 elytra glabrous. 



Head obliquely flattened, as wide across eyes as length of 

 antennae, with a shallow depression on each side in front; punc- 

 tures dense and sharply defined but not very large, becoming 

 smaller in front. Antennae with second joint almost as stout as 

 first but distinctly shorter, third-eighth small. Prothorax at 

 widest (which is near the apex) slightly wider than head, apex 

 distinctly wider than base, each side of base distinctly impressed, 

 margins rather acutely carinated throughout but incurved at 

 base; punctures much as on head. Elytra at base about the 

 width of prothorax at its widest, feebly dilated to beyond the 

 middle and then widely rounded; with rather coarse punctures 

 in distinct but irregular series near base, becoming smaller and 

 irregularly disposed elsewhere. Length, 1^-1 1 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Mount Wellington, in moss; Launceston (A. 

 M. Lea). 



A short, dumpy species, with prothorax rather conspicuously 

 clothed, and elytra glabrous. On the type, the first spot on each 

 elytron is a large, irregular one, commencing on the shoulder 

 and obliquely directed towards the suture, near which it termin- 

 ates at the basal third; the second one commences just beyond 

 the middle, and is obliquely subtriangular. On one specimen, 

 the pale markings are considerably enlarged, so that they appear 

 to be the ground-colour, with the infuscate portions marginal, 

 sutural, and forming three, large, median spots; the smaller one, 

 on the suture, narrowly connected with the others, and these 

 connected with the marginal infuscation. 



