494 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, XI., 



Family RHIPIDOCERIT)^. 



Ennometes ruficornis Gray, var. ramosus, ii.var. 

 I cannot satisfy myself that a male from Cairns (E. Allen) 

 represents more than a variety of E. 7mJicor7iis, but the antennal 

 rami are much longer than in any specimen of that species before 

 me. Thus, if the ramus of the third joint was pressed close 

 to the rest of the antenna, it would extend to about the middle 

 of the eleventh joint; in E. ruficor^iis, I have not seen it extend- 

 ing to the tip of the eighth joint, and it is usually much shorter; 

 its angle with the joint is also different. 



Family MALACODEHMID^. 

 Atyphella oijvieri, n.sp. 



g. Whitish-flavous; head shining black; a large prothoracic 

 blotch, a wide stripe on each elytron, metasternum, three basal 

 segments of abdomen and appendages blackish. Finely pubes- 

 cent. 



Head mostly invisible from above; eyes occupying more than 

 two-thirds of the entire surface. Frothorax more than twice as 

 wide as long, sides rounded, front angles not defined, apex gently 

 rounded, base distinctly wider than apex, disc somewhat unevenly 

 convex; with a fairly distinct median line ; with dense, and 

 clearly defined, but rather shallow punctures. Scutellum rounded 

 at apex, densely punctate. Elytra gently increasing in width to 

 about the middle, and then gently decreasing; disc of each with 

 four costse, of which three are entirely within the black area, the 

 fourth being partly outside it, and rather feeble; with dense 

 punctures, smaller but deeper than on prothorax. Length, 

 ej-SJmm. 



//a6. — Queensland : Cairns (E. Allen), Little Mulgrave River 

 (H. Hacker). 



In general shape, resembling A. bi-evis, but each elytron with 

 a solid black vitta, in which the costse are conspicuous only by 

 their elevation; the vittse are produced to the extreme base, but 

 not to the apex, sides, or suture, so that the elytra appear to 

 have two, wide, black stripes, and three, narrow, whitish ones. 



