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pressed on each side of the suture, the punctures in the 

 bottom of the strise only slightly apparent, the seventh, eighth 

 and ninth striae very obliterate, the punctures visible only 

 in the middle, gradually disappearing towards base and apex, 

 which is strongly punctured. 



Length of body: 13 mm. 



Breadth of elytra: 4 mm. 



I have been unable to identify this species with any of 

 those described. In some points it seems to agree with 

 F. nitens Westw., but differs undoubtedly in the entirely 

 black head, the sculpture of prothorax, and strise of the elytra. 



Two specimens from Mt. Tambourine, October 1912. 



8. Figulus striatus Ol. — As a local variety of this 

 old species I must dass six specimens from the rain-forests 

 of West Quensland (Bellenden Ker and Yarrabah). They 

 only differ from the typical form by having the head a little 

 more distinctly punctured, and the longitudinal impression 

 on prothorax a trifle deeper and more deeply punctured. 



The species seems to have been recorded from Mauritius, 

 lie de France, and Bourbon. In the collections of the Swedish 

 State Museum there are typical specimens also from «Ind. or», 

 so the species is apparently spread över a greater area than 

 was supposed. 



Fam. Paussidae. 



The material of Paussidce collected by me in Australia 

 is, owing to the rareness of these beetles, very small, comprising 

 only three specimens representing two different species. Never- 

 theless it is of greatest interest, one of the two forms being 

 hitherto known only from the single type specimen, the other 

 one representing a new and interesting form of the genus 

 Arihropterus Mac Leay. 



1. Megalopaussiis amplipennis Lea. — Only some years 

 ago this remarkable form was described by Lea from a spe- 

 cimen taken by Dodd at Kuranda not far from the place 

 where I caught my specimen. 



This curious form apparently represents another of the 

 primitive forms so plentifully met with in Australia. The 



