100 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



OEDEMERID^. 



Danerces.* 



No species of this genus has hitherto been recorded from 

 Australia. It is remarkable for the biflagellate 4th joint of the 

 maxillary palpi in the male. Westwood described thirteen 

 species from New Guinea and the Malay Archipelago,! and I 

 have now^ to record one from Queensland. 



Danerces bicolor, n.sp. 

 (Plate iv., fig. 11.) 



^. Narrow, moderately shining, densel}^ and finely pubescent 

 all over. Black (claw-joints paler); prothorax and elytra reddish- 

 testaceous, the former with three black spots — a small angular 

 one in middle, and a still smaller rounded one on each side; 

 clypeus obscure testaceous. 



Head with dense but shallow and indistinct punctures. 

 Antennae extending to abdomen, 1st joint slightly longer than 

 3rd, 2nd less than half the length of 3rd, 4th slightly longer 

 than 3rd or 5th, the others feebly decreasing in length; 3rd-7th 

 somewhat compressed, 8th- 11th almost cylindrical. Prothorax 

 longer than wide, shorter and wider than head, base and apex 

 feebly incurved to middle, sides swollen in front, all the angles 

 rounded, disc uneven; punctures as on head. Scutellum sub- 

 quadrate. Elytra much wider than prothorax, and more than 

 twice as long as head and prothorax combined, shoulders rounded, 

 sides parallel to near apex, where each is separately rounded; 

 densely and finely granulate; each with three raised and punctate 

 longitudinal costse, of which the outer one is shorter and less 

 distinct than the others; sides and suture thickened. Mesoster- 

 num long, wdth a rather wide and continuous median ridge. 



* Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1875, p. 228, pi. 7, fig. 3. 

 t By a curious oversight the hind tarsi of D. bipartita, Westw., are 

 figured as pentamerous. 



