BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 599 



SCLEROCYPHON BASICOLLIS, n.Sp. 



Shaped very much as S. maculatus, but smaller and less convex. 

 The derm shining. Piceous-black, narrowly margined with dull 

 red; basal joints of antennae, coxse, apex of femora and abdominal 

 segments testaceous-red; tibise and tarsi clouded with piceous. 

 Above with short ashen pubescence, densest on head and pro- 

 thorax, rather dense towards apex and sides of elytra; beneath 

 densely pubescent, anterior femora almost glabrous; on the pro- 

 thorax at the base there are six short longitudinal lines of denser 

 pubescence. Densely and yery minutely punctate all over, the 

 punctures lai'gest on pi'osternum. 



.Head short; antennae reaching base of intermediate femora; 1st 

 joint slightly longer than 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd about one-third 

 the length of 3rd. Prothorax broadly transverse, widely and 

 shallowly emarginate in front, base feebly bisinuate, without trace 

 of median line, prosternal process carinate. Scutellum large, 

 triangular, the surface around it very feebly depressed. Elytra 

 widest about the middle and without trace of striae; feebly trans- 

 versely strigose along the suture. Apex of penultimate abdominal 

 segment minutely but distinctly serrate along its entire outer 

 edge. Length 2J-3|, width 2-2| mm. 

 Hah. — Tamworth. 



I have two specimens, one of which is certainly a male, but in 

 neither are any of the abdominal segments carinate; one specimen 

 has an obscure reddish mark on each side of the prothorax at 

 base. 



ScLEROCYPHON MACULATUS, Blackb. 



P.L.S.N.S.W. (2), vi., 1,S91, p. 523. 



I have this species from Sydney and Galston; at the latter place 

 I obtained three specimens on a low-growing bush at the side of 

 a creek, in company with a scale; when captured they exuded a 

 yellowish fluid from their joints. 



