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Section 2. — Prothorax without impressed rows of punctures. 

 68. Aleochara haemorrhoidalis. 



Aleochara haemorrhoidalis, Guerin, Voy. Coquille, Ins. II., 

 p. 63, pi. 1 fig. 24 ; Boisduval, Voy. L' Astrolabe, II., p. 57 (1835). 



Black, shining, with a steel-blue or bronzy-green tinge, moder- 

 ately convex, sparingly clothed with short fuscous pubescence ; 

 prothorax and elytra rugose-punctate ; abdomen highly polished, 

 apical half of the 6th and the whole of the 7th segment reddish 

 testaceous. 



Head strongly and rather closely punctured. Antennae rather 

 strongly clavate, joints 5-10 broadly transverse, the terminal joint 

 narrowed but not sharply pointed at the extremity. Prothorax 

 strongly transverse, narrowed in front, moderately strongly mar- 

 gined behind, strongly rugose-punctate, very indistinctly impressed in 

 the middle near the base ; anterior and posterior angles rounded. 

 Scutellum small. Elytra transverse, broader but not longer than 

 the prothorax, a little more finely and closely rugose-punctate than 

 the prothorax. Abdomen broad, only slightly narrowed behind, 

 sparingly and moderately strongly asperate-punctate. Legs black, 

 tarsi ferruginous. Length 4^-6^ mm. 



Gayndah, Queensland ; Bombala, Penrith (under a dead Wallaby), 

 Sydney, New South Wales ; Tasmania, in stercore. An abundant 

 species in the immediate neighbourhood of Sydney. 



69. Aleochara brachialis. 



Aleochara, brachialis, Jekel. Col. Jekel, I., p. 39 (1873). 



Statura et magnitudine fuscipedis, nigro picea, parce breviter 

 fusco-setosa, parum nitida, antennarum articulis 3 primis, tibiis 

 anticis tarsisque obscure rufis ; coxis femoribusque anticis, seg- 

 mentis 6-7 (penultimi basi excepta) ochraceis ; antennis ab articulo 

 4.° abrupte latis, articulis intermediis valde transversis, plus duplo 

 latioribus quam longioribus, 11.° elongato-ovato, non acuto, capite 

 laxe sat profunde, thorace elytrisque crebrius rugoso-punctatis, hoc 

 basi marginato; abdomine profunde remotius subaciculato-punctato, 

 punctis setigeris ut dermi partes coloratis. Long. 6 mm. (Jekel). 



Wide Bay, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales. 



