BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 89 



of Ipsaphes b'lcolor, Oil., is somewhat similar, but the tail seg- 

 ments are still more peculiar; I have not drawn it, however, as 

 the only specimen I now have (and which is about one inch in 

 length) has long been dried. 



SCARAB^ID^. 



Paxelus Arthuri, Blackb. 



This name is a synonym of Panelus {Temnoplectron) pygmceus, 

 Macl. Both descriptions were drawn up from specimens taken 

 at King's Sound by Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 



LiPARETRUS TUBERCULATUS, Lea. 



This species was referred to Macleay's Sec. i., Subsec. 3, c. In 

 again examining the type, however, I see that it should have 

 been referred to Subsec. 2, " Clypeus with the apex more or less 

 tridentate," the clypeus being certainly tridentate, although 

 rather feebly so. In general appearance it is close to L. asper 

 of that Subsection, but the subapical tubercle renders it very 

 distinct from that, and in fact from any other described species. 



Phycochus sulcipenxis, n.sp. 

 (Plate iv., fig. 10.) 



Dark reddish-brown, front margins of prothorax and legs 

 somewhat paler, antennte flavous. Undersurface and legs and 

 outer margins of elytra with long straggling pale hairs. 



Head rather densely granulate but smooth posteriorly, front 

 margin incurved, sides suddenly narrowed beyond middle. Pro- 

 thorax widely transverse, base and sides rounded, apex indis- 

 tinctly emarginate, with coarse irregular punctures, in places 

 conjoined so as to form irregular transverse depressions. tSc^i- 

 tellum minute, semicircular, impunctate. Elytra at base not 

 much wider than prothorax, but considerably wider about middle, 

 each with ten deep and distinct striae, in which are moderately 

 long narrow punctures; interstice.s wide, smooth and impunctate. 

 Legs stout; front tibiae with three large outer teeth, of which the 



