554^ NEW SPRCIKS OF AUSTRAL! A\ C'OLEOPTKRA, xiii., 



missing];* but the species has been described on account of its 

 close resemblance to the preceding one, from which it is strikingly 

 distinct by the hind-tibia?. The colours of both species are some- 

 what as in X. eucalypti and X. fiaincolli^, but otherwise they 

 have little in common with those species. 



Xylophilus michoderks, n sp. 



9. Bright castaneo-flavous, head deeply infuscated. Moder- 

 ately densely clothed with (for the genus) not very short, stra- 

 mineous pubescence. 



Head with rather dense and sharply defined, bur not very 

 large, punctures. Eyes prominent, separated for about the 

 length of the two basal joints of antennae, lightly notched in 

 front. Antennae moderately long, second joint slightly stouter 

 and slightly shorter than third, eleventh slightly wider than 

 tenth, and almost as long as ninth and tenth combined, Fro- 

 thorax small, strongly transverse; with a vaguely impressed, 

 median line, a feeble depression on each side of base; with dense 

 and sharply defined punctures. Elytra comparatively large, 

 much wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex, with a 

 feeble impression on each side at base; punctures dense, sharply 

 defined and moderately large about base, becoming smaller pos- 

 teriorly. Ze^s rather long and thin; hind-tibi?e no wider at apex 

 than in middle. Length, 2/5 mm. 



Hah. — Tasm.: Huon River (A. M. Lea). Unique. 



A pale species, with infuscate head and conspicuous }»unc- 

 tures. From X. fiavescens, it differs in being larger, prothorax 

 considerably smaller in proportion to the elytra, eyes larger and 

 closer together than in the female of that species, and hindlegs 

 verv different from its male. The hind-tibiae (not dilated, and 

 not notched at the apex) are different from those of X. divisus, 

 and several other pale species. 



Xylophilus impressiceps, n.sp. 

 Hlack, parts of appendages reddish. Moderately densely 

 clothed with fairly long, stramineous pubescence. 



" The species, however, belongs to a group without strikingly distinctive 

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