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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW BLIND WEEVILS FROM 

 WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



Considering the large numbers of blind Coleoptera that occur 

 in other parts of the world, it is remarkable that only two species 

 should hitherto have been recorded from Australia. These are 

 Halorhynchns ccecus, Woll., from Western Australia, and II I a- 

 phanus Stephensi, Macl., from New South Wales. Both of these 

 live close to the sea-beach. 



No cave-inhabiting species are known, although at least one 

 blind spider occurs in the Jenolan Caves in New South Wales 

 and another in the Chudleigh Caves in Tasmania. 



I have now to add an additional beach-inhabiting species from 

 Western Australia, and a species from Tasmania which lives in 

 the nests of ants (or at least the specimen described was obtained 

 from an ant-nest).* 



Halorhynchus geniculatus, n.sp. 



Pale reddish-testaceous, extreme base and apex of prothorax, 

 elytral suture, muzzle and knees darker. Clothed with long 

 straggling whitish hair. 



Head sparsely and indistinctly, rostrum densely punctate, the 

 punctures sparser posteriorly. Prothorax with round and rather 

 shallow punctures, denser and larger on sides than on disc. 

 Elytra seriate-punctate, punctures of moderate size and some- 

 what irregular; interstices gently convex, at base feebly, beyond 



* Since this paper was read I have taken in Tasmania two specimens of 

 a very minute blind clavicorn. — A.M.L. 



