514 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



MONOCREPIDIUS OVENS ENSIS, Sp.nov. 



Angustus subparallelus ; minus nitidus ; supra lsete niaculatim 

 albido-pubescens; piceus; capite, prothoracis elytrorumque 

 lateribus, illius media parte, horum basi, scutello et tarsis 

 apicem versus rufescentibus ; prothorace quam longiori vix 

 (trans angulos posticos) angustiori, antrorsum a basi angus- 

 tato, leviter (antice vix perspicue) canaliculato, sat crebre 

 minus fortiter punctulato, angulis posticis haud divergentibus, 

 sat elongatis, sat fortiter bicariuatis ; elytris apice subacu- 

 minatis, punctulato-striatis, interstitiis sat planatis sat crebre 

 subrugulosis ; corpore subtus eonfertim subtiliter (prosterno 

 sparsius fortius,— hoc ad latera haud sulcato) punctulato; 

 antennis prothoracis basin haud plane attingentibus, articulo 

 3° quam 2 US sat longiori ; tarsorum lamella sat angusta ; 

 capite postice haud distincte carinato. 



[Long. 4 J, lat. 1^ lines. 

 Very distinct from all previously described species through the 

 whitish pubescence of the upper surface arranged amoug some 

 dark brown pubescence in such fashion as to form a number of 

 whitish spots which on the prothorax are very ill-defined but on 

 the elytra very clearly defined and there arranged so as to fall 

 into about 10 transverse fascia?. It appears to be a typical 

 Monocrepidius in all its structural characters. It may be noted 

 that owing to the gradual narrowing forward of the prothorax 

 that segment has the appearance of being more elongate than it 

 really is. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



Monocrepidius baldiensis, sp.nov. 



Angustus, sat parallelus ; miuus nitidus ; supra dense cinereo 

 pubescens ; piceus, prothoracis angulis posticis, scutello, 

 sutura, genubus, tarsis, abdominisque apice, rufescentibus ; 

 prothorace quam trans angulos posticos latiori paullo longiori, 

 a basi antrorsum leviter angustato, haud canaliculato, crebre 

 subrugulose punctulato, angulis posticis haud divergentibus 



