224 Proceedings of tJte Royal Society of Victoria. 



Entomophthalmus. 



£. utiifortnis, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, subparallelus, postice 

 leviter angustatus, minus convexus; tota rufo-ferrugineus ; capite 

 crebre aspere punctulato ; oculis subobsolete incisis ; antennis 

 quam corporis dimidium multo longioribus, apicem versus paullo 

 magis gracilibus ; prothorace sac fortiter tranverso, quadriformi, 

 crebre vix aspere punctulato, carina accessa bene definita; elytris 

 obsoletissime striatis, crebre subfortiter (quam prothorax magis 

 fortiter) punctulatis. 



Long. U 1. Lat. \ 1 (vix). 



The genus Entomophthalimis has not been previously recorded 

 as Australian. The present species is near the Malayan E. fugax, 

 Bonv., with which it agrees in the feebleness of the incision of 

 its eyes, but is inter alia quite differently coloured. 



N. Queensland (Mr. Koebele). 



Dyscolockrus. 

 The following species are certainly, I think, congeneric with 

 the insect that I described (Tr. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1892, p. 56) as 

 D. heros, Blackb. M. de Bonvouloir treats the length of the 9th 

 antennal joint in relation to that of the preceding joints as a 

 generic character, but it appears to me that the character cannot 

 be strictly insisted upon. In the species Ijefore me the 9th joint 

 is strongly elongated but not so strongly as it is said to be in the 

 diagnosis of Dyscoloceriis (in ]ieros it is tiiore strongly elongated 

 than according to the diagnosis it should be). I cannot ^nd any 

 other character on which to separate any of these Australian 

 forms from Dyscoloceriis. The following characters in combination 

 distinguish the insects described below from all the Eucncinid 

 genera known to me except Namohius Dyscoloceriis Crypfosto/na 

 and Orodotes ; — viz, metasternum and abdomen non-sulcate, no 

 sulci for receiving the antennte on any part of the prosternum, all 

 the joints of the tarsi quite simple, laminjc of the hind coxse 

 continuously and gradually narrowed from their hind apex to the 

 lateral iiiagin, no discal carime on the pronotum, mandibles 

 straight (or nearly so) behind, clypeus rounded in front and 

 considerably narrowed at its base, antenn?e not in the least 

 dentate or pectinate, propleuri strongly narrowed in front. The 

 four genera mentioned above as presenting this combination of 



