626 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Syzetoninus C?) crassicornis, n.sp. 



9. Ovate, shining. Head and prothorax black, elytra dark 

 brownish-black, antennae red, femora brownish-red; palpi, tibite 

 and tai-si testaceous. Minutely pubescent above and below. 

 Densely and not very minutely punctate above, the punctures 

 largest on the elytra and especially towards the base; meso- and 

 metasternum rather strongly punctured. 



Head not quite as long as wide; eyes large, prominent, not 

 quite reaching the base of the head; antennje thick, inserted 

 considerably in front of the eyes, reaching a short distance beyond 

 the prothorax; 1st joint as long as 11th, 2nd shorter, 3rd-4tli 

 shortest, 3rd-10th transverse, 8th-10th widely so, 11th shortly 

 obovate, not quite as long as 9th-10th, the joints from the 4th 

 gradually thickening. Prothorax transverse; widest at the base, 

 where it is not much narrower than the head, strongly rounded 

 in front; a row of large shallow irregular foveas at base; with a 

 very shallow, indistinct impression in the middle of the apex. 

 Elytra convex, at the base slightly wider than head across the 

 eyes, about one and a half times as long as head and prothorax 

 combined, not one and a half times as long as wide, widest behind 

 the middle, shoulders feebly rounded, no oljlique impressions 

 behind them. Length 1| (vix), width | mm. 



Hah. — Galston. 



I cannot make out the legs very satisfactorily, but the posterior 

 femora appear to be thickened towards the apex and all the tibise 

 straight. The antennfe are the shoi'test and thickest (even for a 

 9) that I have seen in any species of the three allied genera. 



8yzetonellus sordidus, n.sp. 



$. Oblong-oval, subshining. Head deep black; prothorax 

 browniish-black; elytra brownish, the base reddish-testaceous, the 

 apex feebly tinged with testaceous; beneath piceous-brown, legs 

 pale testaceous, posterior femora brownish, coxfe and in front of 

 them reddish; antennse reddish-testaceous, the three apical joints 

 brown. Elytra covered with minute pubescence, beneath the 



