144 AUSTRALIAN PSELAPLTID^E, 



New South Wales (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



This species is larger than the others; the longitudinal carinules 

 of the prothorax are very short and obsolete; the antennae are 

 very strong and densely rugose. 



Batrisus falsus ? n.sp. 



Oblongus, totus rufus, sat dense fulvo-pubescens. Caput 

 latitudine et longitudine yequale, vertice subconvexo, delicatule 

 earinato, foveis duabus et sulcis parum prof undis antice angulatim 

 junctis. Antennae mediocres, articulis 3-7 latitudine sua haud 

 duplo longioribus, leviter ovatis, 8 brevissime ovato, 9-10 multo 

 majoribus, brevissime obconicis, 11 ovato, acuminato. Prothorax 

 disperse et minute tuberculosus, cordatus, antice abrupte attenu- 

 atus, lateribus vix rotundatis, minutissime dentatis, sulco medio 

 longitudinali obsoleto, subintegro, carinulis ante medium abbre- 

 viatis, spinis posticis brevibus, acutis. Elytra disperse punctata, 

 latitudine sua longiora, basi attenuata, humeris valde obliquis, 

 elevatis, lateribus rotundatis, sulco dorsali obsoleto. Abdomen 

 elytris angustius, basi haud angustatum, segmento dorsali 1° 

 basi tratisversim triimpresso, impressione media lateralibus fere 

 dimidio minori. 



$. Metasternum sulcatum; trochanteribus intermediis minute 

 medio angulatis, posticis apice productis, isto processu parum 

 elongato, recurvo et acuto. Long. 2-00 mm. 



Forest Reefs, N.S.W. (Mr. A. M. Lea). 



Much smaller than B. hamatus; the lateral tooth of the pro- 

 thorax is hardly visible, the groove and the carinules of the 

 same are obsolete; the elytra are much more narrowed at the base, 

 and the shoulders are strongly marked but without spine. 



Genus Batrisodes, Reitter. 



Verb.. Naturf. Ver. Brunn, xx. p. 205; Raffray, Rev. d'Ent. 1894, 

 p. 231 and 26t>. 



This genus differs from Batrisus, Aube, by the square shape of 

 the head and the position of the eyes, which are set close to the 

 posterior angles; the first dorsal segment of the abdomen which is 



