420 A REVISION OP THE STAPHYLINID^ OF AUSTRALIA, 



Facie et colore Oxypodae lividipennis ; multo minor, fusitormis, 

 subconvexa, nigra, sat opaca ; ore, antennis, segmentorum 

 marginibus, ano pedibusque rufis ; tarsis elytrisque testaceis, his 

 circa scutellum f uscis ; densissime brunneo pubescens ; corpore 

 antico creberriine densissime, abdomine minus opaco dense 

 subtiliter et aequaliter, punctatis ; antennis maxime robustis, 

 elongatis, articulo 4.° vix transverso, 5-10 subquadratis, 11.° duobus 

 praecedentibus longiore ; thorace convexo, obsolete sulcato, parum 

 transverso, antice sat angustato, angulis posticis obtusissi mis, 

 basi vix sinuata ; elytris hoc paulo latioribus et longioribus ; 

 ^ segmento7.° supra apice subemarginato, subtus conico, maxime 

 producto ; (J> subtus vix producto, profunde emarginato. Long. 

 3-3J mm. (Fvl.) 



Adelaide, South Australia. A cosmopolitan species. 



16. HOMALOTA ROBUSTICORNIS. 



Homalota robusticornis, Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Genov. XIII., 

 p. 576 (1878). 



Facie et antennis longis, maxime robustis, longicorni vicina ; 

 paulo minor, magis nitida, vix pilosula, multo subtil ius pubescens, 

 triplo subtilius crebriusque punctata, abdomine nitido, segmentis 

 5-6 praesertim subtilius punctatis ; antennis brevioribus et minus 

 robustis, articulo 4.° quadra to, 5-10 multo brevioribus, inter se 

 aequalibus, vix longioribus quam latioribus, 11.° multo breviore ; 

 elytris minus dilutis, piceis facillime distinguenda. Long. 2^ mm. 

 {Fvl.) 



Sydney, New South Wales. 



17. Homalota indefessa, sp. n. 



Elongate, moderately convex, testaceous, somewhat shining, 

 rather closely covered with fine yellowish pubescence ; antenna?, 

 except the first four joints, and a large spot on the disc of the 

 prothorax infuscate; 5th and basal half of the 6th and 7th 

 abominal segments blue-black. 



Head transverse, rather finely and closely punctured. Antennae 

 rather short, the first four joints pale testaceous, the others 



