BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 227 



pro thorax wider and less deeply emarginate, head darker, tibite 

 differently spurred, somewhat feebler puncturation, and its more 

 sober colour. My Pitt Town specimens (three) were taken from 

 the nest of a Diamond Sparrow, and some of the Sydney ones 

 from the nests of a Processionary Moth. 



DiPLOCCELUS PUNCTATUS, n.sp. 



Subparallel, subdepressed, shining. Dark brownish-red, elytra 

 dark red, legs bright red. Above with long yellowish pubescence, 

 longest at the sides, much shorter and sparser on the undersurface; 

 tibiae with short spurs and set?e at their apices. Head densely 

 and strongly, prothorax as strongly but not so densely punctate, 

 with several rows of quadrate punctures at the sides; elytra 

 striate - punctate, the punctures large, quadrate, interstices 

 minutely punctate; sterna with large shallow punctures; abdo- 

 minal segments minutely punctate. 



Head transverse (when at rest); eyes moderately prominent; 

 antennae widely separated, scarcely reaching base of prothorax, 

 two basal joints rather large, middle joint of club widely trans- 

 verse, much wider than basal, apical subcircular. Prothorax 

 transversely oblong; apex widely and feebly emarginate, base very 

 feebly — if at all— bisinuate; posterior angles almost rectangular; 

 sides narrowly margined and narrowly bicostate'; base feebly im- 

 pressed in the middle. Scutellum very narrowly transverse. 

 Elytra about one and a half times as long as head and prothorax 

 combined, base truncate, shoulders rounded, scarcely wider than 

 prothorax. Basal segment of abdomen with two oblique lines on 

 each side. Legs short, tibiae straight and widening to apex. 

 Length 2 J, width 1 (vix) mm. 



//a5.— Richmond River, N.S.W. 



From D. fasciatus, the present species may be distinguished by 

 its narrower, more parallel outline, absence of elytral fascia 

 (though in that species it is sometimes almost obsolete), less convex 

 form, shorter antennae, with short«»^ '^lub, more sober colour, and 

 somewhat feebler puncturatio'^ 

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