190 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



specimens are of an almost uniform blackish colour. The tarsi are 

 shorter and wider than in the other Cydmcece known to me. 

 N. S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 



CYDMiEA DIVERSA, Blackb. 



An example taken in the Blue Mountains seems to be indis- 

 tinguishable from the Western Australian type of this species. 

 Although not quite contiguous, its front coxse are not so markedly 

 separated, however, as in that specimen, seeming to justify my 

 opinion when I described G. diversa that that peculiarity is not of 

 extreme importance. 



CYDMiEA CRASSIROSTKIS, Sp.nov. 



Late ovalis; squamis fusco-nigris cinereis fulvo-cupreisque inter- 

 mixtis vestita, antennarum scapo ad basin rufescenti ; rostro 

 quam prothorax subbreviori apicem versus fortiter compresso; 

 funiculi articulo 1° quam 2"^ multo (hoc quam sequentes 

 parum) longiori; prothorace leviter transverso; elytris punc- 

 tulato-striatis, interstitiis vix convexis. 



[Long. 1|, lat. 4 line. 



On the head and prothorax the coppery-brown scales prevail, 

 and the ashy-grey scales form a line between the eyes and are 

 condensed about the sides of the prothorax ; on the elytra 

 fuscous-black scales may be regarded as forming the ground 

 colour, fulvous-coppery scales form a broad ill-detined sutural 

 stripe behind the scutellum and widen into a large patch occu- 

 pying the greater part of the apical half of the elytra (the sides 

 being fuscous-black), and in this patch is a narrow inconspicuous 

 fascia of ashy-grey scales. The undersurface is entirely clothed 

 with ashy-grey scales. 



The foim of the rostrum is very peculiar. It is strongly arched 

 and viewed from above appears nearly parallel-sided (a little 

 narrowed near its base) and moderately narrow, but viewed from 

 the side it appears quite strongly dilated a little before the apex 

 (so that here the distance from the upper to the under surface is 



