488 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Also belongs to the group of piceus, owing to the combination 

 of 9-jointed antenna?, clypeus free from labrum and not emarginate, 

 hind claws normally appendiculate. The prothorax is about \ 

 again as wide as long, and at the base is not much more than J 

 again as wide as across the front, which is not strongly bilobed ; 

 the base is feebly lobed in the middle ; the front angles are not 

 very prominent ; the hind angles, viewed from above, are very 

 well defined and nearly rectangular. 



Victoria ; on the higher mountains. 



As the described species allied to H. piceus are now becoming 

 rather numerous, it will perhaps be well to substitute the following 

 tabulation for that falling under E (on 1st line of p. 1330, 

 P.L.S.N.S.W., 1888) :— 



E. Clypeus not emarginate. 



F. Basal piece of hind claws evidently 

 longer than the apical piece. 

 G. Upper surface not clothed with 

 long erect hairs. 

 H. Sculpture of upper surface uni- 

 form (or nearly so) and more 

 or less close and fine. 

 I. Front tibiae strongly tridentate 

 externally. 

 J. Sculpture (though uniform) 

 considerably stronger than 

 in thefollowing two species *gracilipes, Blackb. 

 JJ. Sculpture fine and close. 

 K. Size large, prothorax 

 nearly twice as long as 

 wide picPAhS, Blanch. 



* These species were stated by me (in P.L.S.N.S.W., 1889, p. 1225) to be 

 better placed near //. piceus, Blanch., than in the allied group (where I 

 originally placed them), having the apical piece of the hind claws extremely 

 short. 



