266 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



DiRCCEA 4-MACULATA, n.Sp. 



Elongate, convex, shining. Dark piceous-brown, muzzle, apex 

 of prothorax, apex of elytra, and spurs indistinctly paler; each 

 elytron with two small macul?e — the first and largest situated 

 about a fourth from the base, and midway between side and 

 suture, elliptic or ovate in shape, and very slightl}^ oblique; the 

 second situated about a third from the apex, a little closer to 

 suture than to side, and transversely rounded. Moderately 

 clothed with very short greyish pubescence, a little more densely 

 on abdominal segments than above. Head, prothorax and sterna 

 densely and minutely punctate; elytra at base feebly transversely 

 punctate-strigose; rest of elytra and abdominal segments very 

 minutely punctate. 



Head round; antennte somewhat flattened, reaching to midway 

 between intermediate and posterior coxc\^, 1st joint not as long as 

 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd more than half the length of 3rd, 3rd-10th 

 subequal, 11th not once and a half as long as 10th, 9th-llth 

 slightly concave inwardly. Prothorax subquadrate, base narrowly 

 margined and almost truncate; median line very feebly traceable, 

 a distinct but rather small fovea marking its base. Elytra about 

 four times as long as wide, shoulders rounded, sides parallel to 

 about a third from the apex, traces of a number of costte on basal 

 half, entirely obsolete on apical. Posterior tibiae feebly depressed, 

 serrate on their outer edge; spurs very short, not quite equal; 

 basal joint of tarsi twice the length of the following, the two 

 combined as long as tibiae. Length 4^, width 1 mm. 



Eab.— Glen Innes, N.S.W. 



I think my specimen is a male, as I have seen others which 

 were considerably larger and broader. 



DiRCCEA LIGNIVORA, n.Sp. 



Q. Elongate, convex, subcylindrical, subopaque. Dark piceous- 

 brown, prothorax with the margins very little paler; elytra with 

 base, margins and suture obscure ferruginous, each with two pale 

 testaceous markings — the first, and smallest, irregularly ovate. 



