228 NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



DiPLOCCELUS LATUS, n.sp. 



Short, thick, subdepressed, shining. Chocolate-brown; lower 

 surface, legs, and antennte paler. Clothed all over with moderately 

 long pubescence, longest and blackest above, shortest and yellowish 

 beneath. Very minutely punctate all over; the head with dense 

 and rather small punctures, larger and sparser on prothorax; 

 elytra seriate-punctate, the punctures moderately large and sub- 

 quadrate at base, feebler towards apex; sterna distinctly and not 

 very densely punctate. 



Head transverse; eyes prominent; antenna? widely separated, 

 not passing anterior cox?e, two basal joints of club transverse — 

 the middle wider than basal, apical joint circular. Prothorax 

 broadly transverse, very little wider behind than in front; sides 

 slightly rounded, apex feebly and widely emarginate, sides 

 narrowly margined and with traces of costpe. Scutellum very 

 small, widely transverse. Elytra about twice as long as head and 

 prothorax combined, not twice as long as wide; base truncate, 

 shoulders scarcely rounded, sides sul^parallel to near the apex. 

 Basal segment of abdomen with two oblique lines on each side, 

 both commencing at the middle of the base, the first straight and 

 terminating at the apex; the second curvilinear, terminating before 

 the apex. Legs rather short and flat; tibite dilating towards 

 apex; claw joint of posterior tarsi as long as the others combined. 

 Length 2|, width IJmm. 



Uab. — Donnybrook, W.A. 



Proportionately broader than any species known to me. 



D E R ]M E S T I D .E. 



Antheenus socius, n.sp. 



Subparallel, subdepressed, shining. • Black; undersurface 

 piceous-black, margined v/itli dull red at the base and sides of the 

 prothorax, and at the apex of the abdominal segments (except 

 the apical), legs also dull red; club of antennae and palpi ferru- 

 ginous. Above covered with short blackish hair, very short on 



