308 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



on each side, then two oblique, small white spots; the sides 

 broadly marked with whitish scales, edged immediately beneath 

 with ochreous; three fascicles on each side of the median line, the 

 basal small and dark, intermediate reddish and with a few short 

 setae, apical composed of elongate set?e, which slightly project 

 over the head. Scutellum small, round. Elytra with a few 

 whitish scales towards the apex, each with a number — about ten 

 — of small irregularl}^ placed, sparsely setose tul^ercles, and a 

 large one about the middle — equidistant from each other and the 

 sides — covered with long setae, paler in the middle, darker and 

 shorter at apex. Legs with irregular rings of whitish scales, and 

 with whitish and brownish setae; femora thick, keeled beneath, 

 the keel terminating abruptly at a third from the apex; tibiae 

 flattened, arcuate (especially the intermediate), a short spur at 

 their apices. Length 5, width 2| mm. 



Hah. — Sydney. 



I have but one specimen, and do not care to scrape it too much, 

 where I have scraped off the scales on the elytra, the derm is seen 

 to be shining, and covered with very minute punctures; the 

 shining median line is very conspicuous. 



C R Y L o P H I D ^. 



This family appears to l)e numerousl}^ represented in Australia, 

 although but two species have been hitherto described. Most of 

 the following species were obtained during floods, others by 

 searching decaying vegetal^le matter, and a few b}^ beating drying 

 boughs of Eucalypts and other plants. All of them have the 

 prothorax strongly rounded in front and entirely covering the 

 head; with a few of the species I have not been able to examine 

 the head; in all that I have the eyes are coarsely faceted. They 

 are all shining and sliglitly convex, a few moderately convex; in 

 most of them the pubescence is of a yellowish colour, where it is 

 otherwise I have specified it. The lengths given are those from 

 apex of prothorax to apex of elytra; where I have had numerous 

 specimens I have taken an average-sized one. 



