138 AUSTRALIAN PSELAPHIDJi, 



sinuata et quadratim tuberculata, utrinque, lateribus area ovata 

 crebrej rugoso-punctata. Metasternum late iinpressum, segmento 

 ultimo ventrali late impresso et aspero-punctato; trochanteribus 

 posticis apice acute clentatis. 



9. Caput minus transversum, post oculos foveis duabus et sulco 

 obsolete trans verso, sulcis duobus validis antice conjunctis, lateri- 

 bus depressis et bicarinatis, caput longitudinaliter medio fere totum 

 carinatum. Metasternum sulcatum. Long. 2; 1 0-2*30 mm. 



Pine Mountain, Brigham [? Brisbane.] 



I have not seen any type of B. cyclops, King, but according to 

 the description I have no doubt that it is the same species as 

 giraffa, Schfs. 



The above description is drawn up from a type of giraffa, Schfs. 



Batrisus ursinus, Schaufuss. 

 Soc. Ent, Belg. 1880, p. 31; Nunq. Otios. iii. p. 507. 



(Plate x., fig. 27). 



Elongatus, gracilis, brunneus, subopacus, totus confertim 

 punctatus et setis brevibus, depressis, ochraceis coopertus. Caput 

 latitudine sequilongum, temporibus postice obliquis et leviter 

 rotundatis, subrugoso-punctatum. Antennae crassae, valid*, 

 articulis subcylindricis, latitudine sua vix duplo longioribus, 5 

 paulo longiori, 8 multo breviori, 9 breviter ovato, truncate, 

 majori, 10 trapezoidali, leviter transverso, paulo majori, 11 

 breviter ovato, abrupte acuminato. Prothorax elongato-cor- 

 datus, rugosus, lateribus muticus, sulco medio longitudinali 

 breviori, simplici et postice in foveam magnam ovalem desinenti, 

 in disco utrinque carinis duabus obsoletis postice in tuberculum 

 acutum convergentibus, obsolete transversim impressus, lateribus 

 pone medium maxim e foveatis et basi ipsa minute quadrifoveata. 

 Elytra elongata ad basin attenuata, humeris valde obliquis, 

 carinatis et obtuse dentatis, sulco dorsali obsolete. Segmento 1° 

 dorsali caeteris paulo longiori, utrinque impressione maxima et 

 medio impressione multo minori carinis duabus brevissimis limi- 



