Colcopb't'd ()/ Kin;/ /sldiul. 157 



Black or blackish ; antennae (ba.sal joint sometimes infuscate), 

 palpi and legs (femora more iir less infuscate) reddish. Rathc'r 

 densely clothed with fine whitish pubescence. 



Head convex ; denseh' and rather coarsely punctate. An- 

 tennae extending to m&tasternuui. Pruthni-ax as long as wide, 

 but apparently slightly longer than wide, strongh^ convex, sides 

 rounded in front, basal two-thirds subparallel. hind angles 

 moderately produced, mcdinn lino almost absent, with a wide 

 shallow basal impression on each side; punctures as dense as on 

 head, but rather shallnwer and smaller. Scutelhnn gi'anulato. 

 Elytra (by measurement) about twice and one-half the length 

 01 prothorax. gently decreasing in width from near base to 

 apex, apex obtusely pointed : with naarow, apparently ini- 

 punctate, striae ; interstices with small dense rounded granules. 

 Under surfaice with dense punctures, becoming granules on 

 apical segment, and subgranulate on basal segments of abdomen. 

 Length, 8 — 9i mm. 



A beach frequenting species \ also occurs near Sydney. 



In general appearance somewhait resembling Acroniopus 

 rugosus, Cand. but with tarsi (except that they are longer) as 

 in Elater perplexus, Cand. On two of the five specimens before 

 me the elytra are piceous brown instead of black. 



107. MelanoxiDitlins (juadriguttatus, Er. 

 1 OS. Cardiophori/s huniihs, (^and. 



109. Ccry/ii/'itt's siiavis, Caiid. 



110. Hapa/t'Siis hirtiis, Cand. 



The specimens from the island seem to represent a variety 

 of this species, as they differ from typical ones in being smaller, 

 with the clothing denser and Ionizer, and the punctures in the 

 elytral striae more pronounced ; they also have the elytra 

 more convex, and the median line of the prothorax more 

 noticeable. I should probably have rejjfarded them as belonging 

 to a distinct species, Vuit that a specimen before me has these 

 differences even more pronounced, and was returned to nie by 

 Monsieur Candeze as var. minor of hirtus. One of the speci- 

 mens wa.s taken under Ijark, but seven others were taken at 



