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PAPERS READ. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



The species descriljed below are all from New South Wales, the 

 majority of them collected by myself. 



S T a P H Y L I N I D ^. 



Xantholinus olliffi, n..sp. 



Black, shining; elytra with a bronzy or purplish tint. Antenna? 

 reddish-piceous, the first three joints shining, the last tinged with 

 red at the apex; tibite and tarsi reddish-piceous, palpi red. 

 Scutellum greenish-black. Head, first three joints of antenna*, 

 prothorax, elytra, femora and tiliiaj with a few scattered blackish 

 hairs; eight distal joints of antennae densely pubescent; abdominal 

 segments with long brownish hair, shortest above; tibife densely 

 spinose and setaceous. 



Head subquadrate; in 9 as broad, in ,^ broader than prothorax, 

 slightly emai-ginate, and with a row of rather coarse punctures at 

 the base, several large punctures behind and at the sides of the 

 eyes, (sometimes connected) the frontal sulci short and terminating 

 in a shallow depression; the head is also extremely minutely 

 punctate on the disk, sides and beneath; antennae slightly longer 

 than the head, the first three joints with a few punctures; Lst 

 joint as long as 2nd-l:th, 2nd not much shorter than 3rd, 4th-10th 

 cylindrical and transverse. Prothoi-ax about as long as head or 

 elytra, at the base narrower than the elytra, considerably narrowed 

 behind, minutely punctate like the head, the lateral margin with 

 an irregular row of punctures, with some irregular punctures on 

 each side in front; there is also on the disk, at a short distance 

 obliquely from the anterior angles, a small puncture in the centre of 



