BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 453 



border reflexed, not reaching base, forming at its posterior ex- 

 tremity the strong acute dentiform ante-basal projection ; these 

 projections truncate behind ; median channel deeply impressed. 

 Elytra broad, short (2-75 x 2 mm.), roundly emarginate behind 

 peduncle, abbreviated (very lightly rounded) at apex ; sides lightly 

 rounded ; shoulders rounded ; strife strongly impressed, striole at 

 base of first interstice short, oblique ; interstices depressed, closely 

 punctulate, the puncturation shallow, deeper and closer on the 

 lateral interstices ; border extending from near scutellum to apex, 

 reflexed from humeral angle to apical cur^e. 



Length 4-75, breadth 2 mm. 



Hah. — Lillydale, Victoria. (Two specimens occurred tu me in 

 a dry situation, on the ground, under bark and debi'is near the 

 foot of a large tree on 20th Nov., 1892.)* 



B R A C H I X I N I 

 PlIEROPSOPHUS MACLEAYI, n.sp. 



Robust ; prothorax a little broader thaii long ; elytra much 

 wider than prothorax, truncate at apex, costate, the spaces 

 between the costa? flat. 



Head yellow with a triangular black spot on vertex, mandibles 

 lirown ; prothorax yellow, anterior margin, posterior margin 

 and a connecting median vitta black, underparts black along 

 posterior margin, the black extending forward on each side along 

 inner sutures of episterna to anterior margin ; elytra black, 

 lateral margin (including inflexed part), apical margin, a spot near 

 each humeral angle and a broad fascia at about middle 

 of length extending from each margin almost to the suture 

 3^ellow ; under parts of body piceous inclining to yellow 

 in middle ; legs and antennte testaceous. Head large, 

 convex, lightly bi-impressed between the antenn;e ; occiput 

 finely rugulose. Prothorax a little l)roader than long (2-7 x 3 



* Mr. G. Masteis has, while this was passing through the press, sent me 

 a specimen labelled '-Ropes Creek, N.8.W." ; it is of a greener colour 

 than my type. 



