BY I'HOMAS O. SLOANK. ibo 



Head wide, sliort, convex: frontal impressions hardly marked. 

 Prothorax transverse, wide across base, strongly roundly nar- 

 rowed to apex, smooth; a well marked, wide, basal impression on 

 each side: base truncate: basal angles marked, obtuse; lateral 

 border narrow; median line obsolescent. Elytra truncate-ovab 

 convex, substriate; base wide; basal border slightly raised above 

 basal border at humeral angles. Length, 4-4-3: breadth, 2-2-lmm. 



//ab. — Victoria : Warburton (Sloane-, 



This species occurred to me not uncommonly under wood in 

 the damp, densely wooded gullies of the Yeathan Creek, near 

 Warburton, in January. It is very closely allied to B. tasmanica 

 SI., which it resembles in sculpture of elytra, but I have thought 

 it distinct; it differs by the prothorax slightly narrowed to base, 

 strongly impressed on each side of base; elytra more convex, 

 more declivous to sides and apex. 



Tribe Ptepostlchini. 

 Sarticus dixoni, Tl.sp. 



Elongate-oval, nitid. Elytra oval, strongly striate; striie finely 

 crenulate; interstices lightly convex on disc, strongly convex on 

 apical declivity, third with four or five punctures near third stria; 

 ines- and metepisterna punctate ; ventral segments punctate. 

 Tarsi ; first joint of four posterior longitudinally canaliculate 

 externally; penultimate joint of posterior narrow, very little 

 widened to apex; onychium glabrous. Black; antennie, tarsi, 

 and reflexed border of prothorax reddish-piceous, 



Head convex (2-3mm. across eyes); eyes prominent. Prothorax 

 broader than long (3-15 x 3"65 mm.); sides evenly rounded; apex 

 very lightly emarginate, bordered; lateral border narrow and 

 reiiexed anteriorly, very wide and strongly reflexed posteriorly; 

 basal fovefe deep; median line tine. Elytra oval (T'l x 4 4 mm.); 

 inner humeral angle marked; lateral apical sinuosities moder- 

 ately developed; strite shallow and finely crenulate on disc, deep 

 on apical declivity, seventh and eighth each formed by a row of 

 closely placed distinct punctures (these strije hardly or not im- 

 pressed along sides), eighth and ninth interstices depressed on 

 sides; lateral channel wide; border strongly reiiexed. Prosternum 



