444 STUDIKS IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, XVll.. 



Tribe Broscini. 



Genus Promecoderus. 



Promkcoderus viRiDiiENEUS, n.sp. 



Elliptical-oval, lightly convex. Mentum with a strong obtuse 

 tooth. Prothorax lightly rounded on sides; basal angles obtuse 

 (3-6 X 3*8 mm.). Elytra oval (8x5 mm.), lightly striate; a con- 

 tinuous row of punctures along sides. Upper surface green, 

 shining; undersurface black, with a chalybeous tinge on pro- 

 sternum, metasternum, and apical ventral segment; legs black, 

 femora with a chalybeous tinge; antennae black. 



(J. Anterior tarsi with the first four joints widely dilatate, and 

 spongiose beneath; intermediate tibiae with first two joints widely 

 dilatate, and spongiose beneath; apical joint of posterior tarsi 

 long, narrow. Length, 14; breadth, 5 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Mount Magnet (Lea). Type in Coll. Sloane. 



A very distinct species, differentiated from all described 

 species of the genus by colour, and by the continuous row of 

 about eight, foveiform punctures along sides of elytra. 



Genus Eurylychnus. 



EURYLYCHNUS OVIPENNIS, n.Sp. 



Robust, oval, convex, nitid. Mandibles with a seta in scrobe; 

 prothorax orbiculate; elytra short, oval, convex, faintly striate 

 on disc, striae obsolete on sides. Black; legs piceous, tibiae 

 reddish-piceous, tarsi and antennae reddish. 



Head not large (2-2 mm. across eyes); vertex with an impunc- 

 tate transverse impression between bases of eyes; front and 

 clypeus strongly biimpressed. Prothorax transverse (2-7 x 3*25 

 mm.), widest a little before middle, much wider atapex(2-35mm.) 

 than base (1-8 mm.), convex, transversely striolate; apex trun- 

 cate; anterior angles rounded; sides rounded; lateral border 

 narrow, even, reflexed, with a small subprominent juxtabasal 

 protuberance; median line strongly impressed; four setigerous 

 marginal punctures on each side, posterior seta distant from 

 basal angle, anterior seta near anterior angle. Elytra shortly 

 oval (5-5 X 3-8 mm.), convex, not depressed on disc; four or five 

 inner striae faintly marked, outer striae obsolete; no scutellar 



