BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 519 



antennis maris corporis dimidio longitudine sequali, feminae 

 paullo brevioribus, articulo 2° parvo, 3° quam 4 US baud 

 breviori. 

 Maris segmento ventrali penultimo profunde rotundatim emar- 

 ginato, incisura dense hirta ; segmento apicali late longi- 

 tudinaliter concavo. [Long. 3, lat. l'i lines (vix). 



Not unlike the European //. miniUus, L., in build, but of much 

 darker colour, evidently more depressed, and of more fragile 

 appearance ; the prothorax is of similar shape but very much 

 more finely punctured ; the puncturation of the elytra also is 

 finer. The structural characters seem to be quite as in H. cinctus 

 (apart from the slight difference in the labial palpi alluded to 

 above) ; than which the present species is narrower and more 

 finely punctured. 



S. Australia and Victoria. 



Helodes montivagans, sp.nov. 



Oblongus ; sat parallelus ; depressus ; pubescens ; niger, capite 

 (hoc postice infuscato) prothorace (hoc antice transversim 

 inf uscato) scutello antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis ; 

 capite crebre subtiliter punctulato ; prothorace fere semi- 

 circulari basi bisinuato, fere leevi ; elytris sat fortiter minus 

 crebre punctulatis, lineis 3 elevatis vix notatis ; antennarum 

 articulis 2° 3°que conjunctis 4° subaBqualibus. 



[Long. 1£, lat. i line. 



This species is (apart from its distinct colouring) notable for its 

 almost levigate prothorax in combination with strongly punctured 

 elytra. I have not been able to examine the labial palpi, but I 

 have little doubt they are like those- of H. Olliffi, with which the 

 present insect agrees in other structural characters. The elytra 

 are much less closely punctured than those of the European H. 

 ■niinutus ; their puncturation is not at all rugulose and is without 

 transverse wrinkles. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



