570 NEAV SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xiii., 



verse, apical joint of palpi longer and not notched, in the tip of 

 the abdomen, and the claws, 



/^rt6.— N.8.W.: Mount Victoria (A. M. Lea). 



In general appearance, fairly close to C. apicalis, but readily 

 distinguished by the palpi of the male. In some respects, the 

 specimens agree with the description of C. jmlchra, but the apical 

 joint of the maxillary palpi is fully twice the length of the penul- 

 timate (instead of scarce!}- longer) in both sexes, and in the male 

 is very distinctive. The male certainly has bifid claws; in the 

 female, each claw, from some directions, is seen to have a con- 

 spicuous, basal swelling, rather acutely pointed, but the claws are 

 not bifid. The flavous parts are the elypeus and middle of 

 undersurface of head, prothorax, scutellum, mesosternum, meta- 

 sternum, basal half of femora, and the coxae, 



CoPiDiTA PACHYMERA, n,sp, (Plate xxix,, fig.7). 



^. Flavous; head (except for parts of muzzle), anteniuv, palpi, 

 knees, tibiae, and tarsi black or infuscated; elytra black, with a 

 purplish gloss, and a conspicuous, median, flavous patch. Rather 

 densely clothed (sparser on the prothorax than elsewhere) with 

 subdepressed, ashen or sooty pubescence. 



Head moderately convex; with dense and sharply defined, but 

 not very large punctures, becoming crowded at base, and smaller 

 in front; mandibles bifid. Eyes large, prominent, and feebly 

 notched in front. Antennae long and thin, eleventh joint no 

 longer than tenth, and conspicuously semi-double. Apical joint 

 of maxillary palpi long, and conspicuously incurved on outer side. 

 Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, sides moderately dilated 

 near apex, base narrowly upturned; with vague, discal depres- 

 sions; and dense and fairly large, subasperate punctures, becom- 

 ing smaller and shallower in front. Elytra much wider than 

 base of prothorax; each with four discal costae, moderately dis- 

 tinct in places; densely granulate-punctate. Yimd-femora very 

 stout; hind-tibiae with a small, acute tooth one-third from the 

 inner apex. Length, 7 J-8 mm. 



//a^,— X.S.W.: Sydney (H..J. Cartel), C4alstun (D. Dumbrell). 



