BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 229 



the head, sparse on the prothorax (each hair rising from a 

 puncture), and rather dense and longest on elytra, on which also 

 there are a few very indistinct grey hairs on the basal two-thirds; 

 on the undersurface the pubescence is very short and greyish- 

 black. Above densely and not very minutely punctate, the 

 punctures strongest on elytra, sparsest on prothorax, and densest 

 on head; the whole surface covered with microscopic punctures, 

 m3st visible on scutellum; undersurface and femora densely and 

 shallowly punctate, punctures densest on prosternum. 



Head rather dull, transverse, feebly transversely impressed 

 between the eyes and antennse, and with a very indistinct median 

 line; antennse short, immersed in prothorax to about the middle 

 of its sides, 1st and 2nd joints somewhat large, between the 2nd 

 and club the joints are very short and transverse; club slightly 

 longer than the rest of antennse, composed of three joints, of 

 which the 2nd is strongly transverse, it is about half the length of 

 the 3rd (which is scarcely transverse), the 1st is transverse. 

 Prothorax polished, strongly transverse, the sides narrowly 

 margined, feebly depressed along the base; anterior angles slightly 

 prominent, giving the apex a feebly emarginate appearance, which 

 otherwise would be truncate; base shallowly bisinuate. Scutellum 

 small, transverse, curvilinearly triangular. Elytra parallel-sided 

 to near the apex, about one and a half times as long as wide, 

 shoulders rounded, base feebly depressed on each side, suture 

 feebly depressed at apex. Prosternum with antennal grooves 

 broad, feebly strigose (to the naked eye appearing highly polished); 

 keel narrow, feebly carinate. Metasternum with a feeble impres.- 

 sion down its middle. Legs — especially the tarsi — slender- 

 Length 2i, width 1} (vix) mm. 



II a b . — Syd ney . 



I obtained my unique specimen under a stone in the nest of a 

 small black ant; there were numerous larvse and a few pupfB, 

 most of which I left, hoping to procure some additional imagines on 

 a future occasion. 



