Coleopterti of Kin;/ Is/ihh/. 177 



Ji(t<tnim loufref tliitii protlmrax in both sexes, but loiiaw in 

 fc'iuale th;ui in male : with thin carinae to insertion of antennae 

 in male, for a shorter distance in female, rrothorar apparently 

 as lontr as wide, sides strongly rounded, apex about two-thirds 

 the width of base; with dense, concealed punctures. Eli/fra 

 conjointly incurved at base ; striate-punctate, striae feeble, 

 punctures fairly larjj^e, but more or less concealed ; third inter- 

 stice with a small fascicle about suiuiuit of posterior declivity. 

 Lenti^th, 2 — 2^ mm. 



Also occurs in Tasmania (Huon River iind Uruni Island; 



The head and base ol rostrum are moderately clothed, but 

 there is a very decided white spot between the eyes. The 

 prothorax has mostly whitish clothing, but with darker 

 pubescence causing a faint (sometimes more distinct, howeve-x'), 

 stripe on each side of a thin white median line. On the elytra 

 the clothing has a faintly mottled appearance, and frequently 

 appears to have three feeble, transverse, infuscate fasciae —one 

 before, one at, and one below summit of posterior declivity ; 

 often, however, these fasciae are represented by four spots, so 

 placed as to form the angles of a square. Two of these spots 

 are always the fascicles on the third interstices ; the fascicles 

 sometimes being very distinct on account of their colour. 



In size and general appearriuce close to tenebricosa. and the 

 description of amoena, but differs in the elytra being reddish, 

 the femora (in 17 specimens before me) not infuscated in the 

 middle, and the clothing (especially of the undc'r surface) more 

 or less greenish or bluish. From posticalis and sydneyensis it 

 differs in having the rostrum larger and the clothing very 

 different. 



Elleschodes. 



This is the only described Australian genus of the Tychiides 

 having dentate femora. There are before me numerous species 

 which agree too closely with its generic diagnosis for me to 

 regard them as belonging to any other genus. But in general 

 appearance they are veiy different to the only species' yet i-e- 

 ferred to it. For the present, therefore, I refer the following 



1 Hainiltoni, for a specimen of wliich I am indebted to tlie Rev. T. Btackliiirii. 



