268 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



P E D I L I D yE. 



Macratria intermedia, n.sp. 



(J. Narrow, subparallel, subdepressed, shining. Head, pro- 

 thorax and undersurface dark, or brownish-red; elytra dark red, 

 becoming piceous at apex; legs and antennae testaceous, apical 

 joint of antennae darker; abdominal segments paler than sterna. 

 Above densely clothed with silky yellowish pubescence, longest 

 on elytra (when seen from behind apparently in lines); on the 

 undersurface the pubescence is much shorter and denser; the legs 

 are somewhat densely pubescent. Head minutely punctate, pro- 

 thorax more densely and strongly; elytra seriate-punctate, the 

 punctures shallow, interstices minutely punctate; undersurface — 

 except the flanks of the mesosternum which are distinctly — 

 minutely punctate. 



Head longer than wide, almost truncate at base; eyes large; 

 antenna? slender, reaching intermediate coxse, 1st joint about as 

 long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd as long as and thicker than 3rd, 

 3rd slightly longer than 4th, 4th-8th subequal, 9th- 10th slightly 

 longer, 11th as long as 7th-10th combined. Prothorax much 

 longer than wide, and wider than the head, widest near the apex; 

 apex rounded, base margined and truncate. Elytra very gradually 

 narrowing to near the apex, shoulders moderately rounded, each 

 elytron separately rounded at apex; suture slightly raised except 

 at base, where it is feebly depressed. Metasternum deeply sulcate, 

 apical segment of abdomen shallowly emarginate at apex. Legs 

 long; femora thickened, the anterior their entire length, inter- 

 mediate for the apical two-thirds, posterior for the apical 

 half; tibiae straight, longer than tarsi, minutely spurred at apices, 

 posterior spurs the longest; basal joint of posterior tarsi nearly 

 twice as long as the following combined, the four anterior little 

 more than half as long. Length 3h, width | mm. 



5. Differs in being somewhat larger (3|mm.) and darker, in 

 having the piceous colour more advanced on the elj^tra (leaving 

 only the base dark red), apical joint of antennae only as long as 



