90 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



median is the largest, and with a long free apical spine; middle 

 tibiae with serrated sides, the apex ver}'^ wide and with a long 

 free spine, also with a tixed spur about half the length of the 

 spine; hind tibise widest of all, the sides deeply sculptured, apex 

 with a long free spine and a fairly long spur; tarsi pentnmerous, 

 the front pair linear and (when placed along it) not passing tip 

 of the outer tibial tooth; middle tarsi stouter and longer, the 1st 

 joint fairly wide, the 5th very thin; joints of the posterior (except 

 the 5th) shorter and wider than those of the middle tarsi. 

 Length 3J, width If; variation in length 3-4 mm. 



Hah. — Hobart, Tasm. (At roots of plants growing in white 

 sand close to Sandy ]3ay beach). 



From the two described ]:^Q\y Zealand species, the strong elytral 

 sculpture will readily distinguish this species. Two of the speci- 

 mens before me are so dark that they might fairly be called black, 

 others are almost castaneous. On only one specimen can I see a 

 few punctures on some of the elytral interstices; on all the others 

 these are quite impunctate. The free spines of the tibiae are not 

 much shorter than the tarsi, those of the middle pair being the 

 longest and of the hind the stoutest. The 5th tarsal joint under a 

 Coddington lens appears to be without ungues; under a compound 

 power it appears to be terminated by one or two setae and these 

 appear to be true setae, so that there are probably no true ungues. 

 Although there are eleven perfect specimens before me, I have 

 not been able to see the antennae sufficiently clearly to draw 

 them or even to describe them. 



Phycochus gkaniceps, Broun. "^ 



I have taken numerous specimens (with one exception, how- 

 ever, all dead and more or less broken and faded) of this species 

 at the dead roots of plants (usually of the bracken fern) in sand 

 hillocks near Sandy Bay. t These specimens agree with two from 



* Broun, Man. N.Z. Col. Part iii., pp. 770 and 771. 

 t From the same place (close to Hobart), Mr. Walker, however, has taken 

 several living specimens. 



