454 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



as A. decora, The original type is from Tasmania. My examples 

 of A. Sloanei were taken by Mr. T. G. Sloane in Gippsland, 

 Victoria. 



Phalota obscura, sp.nov. 



Fusco-brunnea, elytris (nonnullis exemplis basin versus solum), 

 antennis, tibiis, tarsisque, paullo dilutioribus ; pilis longis erectis 

 sparsius vestita ; prothorace transversim rugato ; elytris crebre 

 sat fortiter subrugulose punctulatis. [Long. 3, lat. |- line (vix). 



The prothorax is almost twice as long as its greatest breadth. 

 The elytra are rounded behind, and scarcely flattened dorsally. 

 This species is coloured very difierently from the two previously 

 described. I have seen a good many specimens which scarcely 

 vary except in the elytra having their whole surface or only the 

 basal part of a paler hue than the head and prothorax. It differs 

 from its congeners also, it would seem, in having a wide channel 

 (much abbreviated at both ends) down the prothorax and also in 

 having the prothorax very distinctly transversely wrinkled; mixed 

 up with, and much obscured by, this transverse wrinkling there 

 is close rather fine and rugulose puncturation. 



Port Lincoln; also sent to me from Victoria by Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



Lychrosis. 



Having lately acquired specimens appertaining to this genus 

 from several parts of Northern Australia I have been compelled 

 to regard the examples from the N. Territory of S. Australia 

 (mentioned in the "Proceedings" for 1888, p. 1469) as distinct 

 from P. luctuosus, Pasc, to which I attributed them. The 

 pattern on the elytra in all the species I have seen varies to such 

 an extent that I fear little reliance can be placed on it for dis- 

 tinguishing species. The specimens from the N. Territory, how- 

 ever, have much longer antennae than L. luctuosus (they slightly 

 exceed the length of the body in both sexes). Whether they are 

 Z. afflictus, Pasc, I cannot make up my mind, as the description 



