132 AUSTRALIAN PSELAPHID.E, 



Tribe EUPLECTINI. 

 Genus Paraplectus, Raffray. 



Rev. d'Ent. 1898, p. 269. 



This genus is closely allied to Euplectops, Reitter (Verh. Nat. 

 Ver. Briinn, xx. p. 197), the type of which is Euplectus odeivahni, 

 King. 



In addition to P. punctulatus, Raffr., (Joe. cit.), from Victoria, 

 and P. aetulosus, Raffr., (lor. cit.), from Tasmania, Mr. Lea has sent 

 me the following new species : — 



Paraplectus biplagiatus, n.sp. 

 (Plate x., fig. 33.) 

 Elongatus, subparallelus et subdeplanatus, castaneus, inter 

 strias suturalem et dorsalem in elytris basi macula oblonga nigra, 

 tot us creberrime punctatus, subopacus, minutissime subvelutino- 

 pubescens, an tennis pedibusque run's. Caput trapezoidale, antice 

 attenuatum, lateribus obliquis, postice retusum, medio brevissime 

 sulcatum, inter oculos foveis duabus, sulcis obsoletis, fronte 

 utrinque supra antennas nodoso. Oculi magni. Antennae breves, 

 articulis duobus primis majoribus, subovatis, 3 subconico, 4-10 

 monilibus, longitudine decrescentibus, 8 leviter, 9 et 10 valde 

 transversis, istis paulo majoribus et crescentibus, 11 breviter ovato, 

 basi truncato, apice abrupte acuminato. Prothorax capite major, 

 subcordatus, antice plus postice minus attenuatus, latitudine 

 maxima paulo ante medium, lateribus minus sinuatis, sulco trans- 

 verso nonnihil incisis, isto sulco transverso medio ang'ulato, sulcis 

 tribus longitudinalibus et fovea laterali lata. Elytra elongato- 

 quadrata, humeris obtuse quadratis, basi quadrifoveata, stria 

 dorsali medio evanescenti. Abdomen elytris longius, leviter 

 convexum, segmentis dorsalibus quatuor primis subrequalibus. 1° 

 basi transversim late impresso et carinulis duabus valde divergen- 

 tibus, leviter curvatis et brevibus. Metasternum breviter et 

 obsolete sulcatum; segmentis ventralibus 2, 3, 4 subajqualibus, 5 

 paulo breviori, 6 majori, utrinque oblonge tuberculato, apice 



