508 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



At once distinguished from lanosus by its smaller size and 

 white pubescence, which is also rather less erect and without the 

 silken gloss of that species. 



E. LANOSUS, Blackb. ffab. — Nerang, Q. 



BucoLUS NUYTSiiE, n.sp. 



Wide, depressed, shining. Reddish-brown; head, prothorax in 

 middle, elytra along suture and towards sides, clouded with 

 piceous ; under surface and legs brownish-red, sterna slightly 

 infuscate. Clothed with very short yellowish pubescence; under 

 surface with longer, paler and sparser pubescence, becoming 

 rather long and straggling at sides of abdomen. 



Densely and finely punctate, the elytra more noticeably than 

 prothorax or head. Metasternum impunctate. Epipleur^e and 

 abdomen finely punctate, basal segment of the latter from some 

 directions apparently longitudinally strigose; lamellae glabrous, 

 impunctate, not extending to suture. Tibiae strongly compressed, 

 slightly angular outwardty. Length 3j, width 3; variation in 

 length 3-4 mm. 



JIab. — Geraldton, Donnybrook, W.A. (beneath bark of the 

 "Christmas Tree," JVuytsia Jloribunda). 



To the naked eye the whole upper surface appears to be of a 

 dark chestnut-brown, the piceous markings being scarcely trace- 

 able even with a glass ; from some directions, however, they 

 appear to be marked by two obscure testaceous maculae (or vittae). 

 The antennae extend back to the mesosternum; the anterior angles 

 of the prothorax are slightly in advance of the head, and the out- 

 line of the elytra is continuous with that of the prothorax. 



BuCOLUS NIGRIPES, n.sp. 



Wide, depressed, feebly shining. Piceous-black; flanks of pro- 

 thorax and disc of each elytron (usually very indistinctly) diluted 

 with red; under surface (middle of prosternum infuscate) except 

 epipleurae reddish-testaceous or pale chestnut-brown; legs shining 

 black, tarsi reddish. Clothing as in the preceding species. 



