548 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



<J. Tarsorum anteriorum 4 articulo basali sat dilatato quam 

 3 ius manifeste angustiori ; segmento ventrali apicali leviter 

 bigibbo, apice minute emarginato. [Long. 4?, lat. 3^ lines. 



The prothorax across the apex of its front angles is nearly § as 

 wide as at its widest part. Viewed from the side the curve of the 

 outline is an even one, its highest point being at about the middle 

 of its length, and the height of the insect is about ^ of its length. 

 The male and female do not differ much in shape, the female 

 being, however, a trifle narrower. The apical ventral segment of 

 the female is simply rounded at the apex and its surface is even. 

 In some specimens the extreme apex and base of the hind body 

 and the middle of the prosternum are testaceous ; the sides of the 

 presternum are always widely testaceous. 



This does not seem to be a variable species. 



Victorian Alps ; found at high elevations. 



Plectroscelis olliffi, sp.no v. 



Ovalis, sat convexa ; la?te senea, pedibus (femoribus posticis 

 exceptis) antennisque fusco-testaceis, his apicem versus 

 obscurioribus ; capite prothoraceque fortiter sat crebre punc- 

 tulatis ; hoc quam longiori plus quam dimidio latiori, antror- 

 sum angustato, margine antico in medio sat producto, lateribus 

 leviter arcuatis, angulis anticis sat acutis nullo modo 

 extrorsum directis, angulis posticis rectis retrorsum subpro- 

 ductis ; scutello la?vi ; elytris sat fortiter punctulato-striatis, 

 interstitiis latis sublaavibus latera versus angustioribus 

 subcostiformibus ; antennis quam corporis dimidium paullo 

 longioribus. [Long. 1^-lg, lat. I line. 



Much like the European P. concimia, Marsh., in build and 

 colour, but of a more brightly metallic tone and differing from that 

 species inter alia by its less transverse prothorax which is less 

 closely punctured, the more closely punctured striae of the elytra 

 and the more convex lateral interstices of the same. 



N. S. Wales; sent to me by Mr. Olliff, the Colonial Entomologist. 



