RY A. M. LKA. 



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not half the wic^tli of l)ase, with three feeble depressions in a 

 transverse series across middle. Elytra a trifle wider than pro- 

 thorax; almost parallel-sided to beyond the middle, each with a 

 shallow, longitudinal depression, and with traces of feeble costa^. 

 Length, 12-16 mm. 



y/rt/j.— ^N.S.W.: Jenolan (J. C. Wiburd), Mount Kosciusko (R. 

 Helms). 



A rather large, dingy species (although much smaller than P. 

 runlcullis), that might be referred to Gerstacker's first section of 

 the genus. The elytra are much less narrowed posteriorly than 

 any of the species named by Macleay. The specimens from 

 Mount Kosciusko have the elytra and tarsi of a dingy brown, the 

 abdomen and antenn* somewhat darkei-; on the type, part of 

 the elytra and scutellum are obscurely brownish, but on a second 

 specimen, from Jenolan, these parts (except as to their clothing) 

 are entirely black. 



CEDEMERID^. 



PsEUDOLYCus TARSALis, n.sp. (Plate xxix., fig. 3). 



9- Black, opaque, elytra of a brick-red. Densely clothed with 

 short pubescence, similar in colour to the derm on which it rests. 



Head strongly convex between eyes. Antennae with third to 

 sixth joints flat, strongly inflated and subtriangular, seventh also 

 flat and inflated, but lop-sided, eighth to eleventh much thinner 

 and cylindrical, eleventh semi-double. Prothorax strongly trans- 

 verse, widest close to apex, angles evenly rounded off, with a 

 vague, median depression somewhat deeper at base and apex, and 

 with a large, irregular excavation towards each side of disc. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, slightly dilated posteriorly; 

 each with four, conspicuous, subcostal elevations on disc, suture 

 also elevated but not to base; surface densely and finely granu- 

 late but partially concealed by clothing. Basal joint of hind- 

 tiirsl with a conspicuous seta^-tipped projection at the outer base. 

 Length, 12J mm. 



Hah. — Tasm,: Frankford (A. M. Lea). LTnique. 



In general appearance, strikingly close to var. rufipennis of 

 P. hcemorrhoidalis, but at once distinguished by the hind-tarsi 



