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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BOSTRYCIIIDuE. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



The following species of the above family were obtained princi- 

 pally at Tamworth, while on a collecting trip for the Department 

 of Agriculture last summer, the majority by barking Eucalypts 

 and searching them at night-time with a light. 



Apate serrata, n.sp. 



Elongate, cylindrical, reddish-piceous, shining. Head punctate, 

 less so on the clypeus and vertex than on the occiput ; clypeal 

 suture with a shallow slightly hairy fovea in the middle. Thorax 

 slightly transverse, with two small depressions at the base, rough 

 and dentate in front, and slightly punctate behind and at the 

 sides. Scutellum dark piceous, minutely punctate. Elytra 

 coarsely punctate, less so towards the base, rapidly sloped away 

 at about a third from the apex, with the apical two-thirds dark 

 piceous. The retuse portion is serrately margined all round and 

 lightly covered with short yellowish hairs, and with the suture 

 raised, the margins are slightly swollen in the middle, with the 

 apex flatly projecting a short distance beyond the abdomen. 

 Undersurface of body reddish-castaneous, minutely punctate, and 

 clothed with a fine whitish pubescence. Antennae reddish-testa- 

 ceous, the last three joints much paler. Legs slightly hairy, very 

 minutely punctate, reddish-testaceous, with the tibiae reddish- 

 piceous, the anterior and posterior dentate, and all spurred, the 

 posterior spurs the longest. Length 4J-6 mm. 



Gosford and Tamworth, N.S.W. 



Apate subcostata, n.sp. 



Elongate, cylindrical, dark castaneous, shining. Head inclining 

 to piceous, densely and minutely punctate ; clypeus shining, with 

 a few small punctures, and a well-marked fovea in its suture. 



