BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 603 



L Y M E X Y L O N I D JE. 



Hyleccetus linearis, n.sp. 



Elongate, parallel-sided, punctate and pubescent. Eyes black, 

 head and prothorax brownish-red, elytra and legs darker. Head 

 and prothorax, except towards the apex, covered with a short 

 silky yellowish pubescence; elytra more densely clothed with a 

 shorter and lighter pubescence, underside and legs minutely 

 pubescent. 



Head separated from the prothorax by a thick neck, closely and 

 deeply punctate, the neck more closely and shallowly; eyes large, 

 coarsely faceted 5 approximating in front. Prothorax densely 

 punctate, the punctures largest beneath; about one and a half 

 times as long as wide, elevated at apex, bisinuate at base, the 

 median line deep and wide on the basal half, the sides and front 

 sharply keeled. Scutellum punctate, longer than wide, rounded 

 at the apex. Elytra five or six times as long as wide; densely 

 and minutely punctate, three scarcely elevated but distinct costse 

 on each elytron, continuous from base to near the apex, and a 

 fourth not so distinct, commencing at the base and running 

 obliquely to the suture. Underside minutely punctate. Length 9, 

 width 1-^ mm. 



JIab. — Tamworth. 



Obtained with some other very rare beetles at light, one sultry 

 night in Dec, 1892. 



Texbbrionid^. 

 Paraphanes Dumbrelli, n.sp. 



Short, veiy convex, smooth and shining. Dark bluish or 

 bronzy-black. Head (and sides of prothorax to a lesser extent) 

 with a coppery reflection, tibiae dark brownish-red, tarsi black. 



Head densely and minutely punctate; eyes large, transverse, 

 median line hardly traceable; clypeus transverse, its suture almost 

 straight, slightly, if at all, rounded in front and recurved on the 

 sides, where it is produced a little over the eyes, the point being 

 sharp and bluish; labrum short, transverse, impunctate; antennae 



