596 NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



paler; eyes black; mandibles piceous. Sparingly and very 

 minutely setose all over (densest on the legs). Rugosely and 

 very densely punctate all over; on the upper surface the punctures 

 are smallest on the elytra (which are also punctate-striate, the 

 strife shallow, nine on each elytron); on the lower surface the 

 punctures are strongest on prosternum, densest on apical abdominal 

 segment. 



Head flattened, with a very small carina in the middle; 

 antennae with 1st joint scarcely as long as 2nd-4th combined, 

 2nd short, about as long but not as thick as 4th, 3rd almost 

 as long as 4th-5th combined, the joints from the 4th gradually 

 increasing in length, increasing in thickness to the 7th, then 

 gradually diminishing. Prothorax widest behind, the width there 

 greater than the length; base polished and trisinuate, the middle 

 one the smallest, receiving base of scutellum; median line invisible 

 at base, margined laterally, the margin feebly punctured; posterior 

 angles produced, acute. Scutellum subquadrate, feebly carinate 

 down the middle. Elytra nearly thrice as long as prothorax, not 

 quite covering sides of abdomen; shoulders rounded. Metasternum 

 with a feeble line down its middle. Length 10, width 3 (vix)mm. 



ffab.— New South Wales. 



My single specimen I probably captured about Sydney. The 

 apical joint of each of its antenna? is missing; those left slightly 

 pass the base of the prothorax. 



L. Novus, Bonv. Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3050. 

 i/a6.^— Sydney, Galston. 



Dyscolocerus basalis, n.sp. 



Short, thick, hardly shining. Head, prothorax, scutellum and 

 beneath black; basal half of elytra, tibife, tarsi, palpi and the first 

 eight joints of antenna? red; apical half of elytra piceous; three 

 apical joints of antennae reddish-brown; femora brownish-black. 

 Head in front and prothorax at base with a few short silky hairs; 

 elytra with very short pubescence; undersurface densely clothed 

 with a minute silky pubescence. 



