Australian and Tasmanian Goleoptera. 189 



I'hcKjniiopliaiia macroxficta, n.sp. (Fig. 11.) 



Diirk reddish castaneous, palpi nlightly paler, knees some- 

 what infuscated; elytra black, with three large reddish spots, 

 one on each side of middle and the other apical. With rather 

 dense reddish pubescence, denser and shorter on head and pro- 

 thorax than on elytra, and veiy short on under surface. 



liead (excluding mandibles) almost as long as wide ; with 

 small more or less concealed punctures. Eyes prominent and 

 coarsely faceted. Antennae passing middle coxae, joints very 

 feebly but regularly increasing in width, the apical ones not 

 clubbed, eleventh subcylindrical but its apex conical, slightly 

 longer than ninth and tenth combined. Prothorar slightly 

 longer than wide, widest near apex, sides thence regularly de- 

 creasing in width to base ; each side of base with two small 

 but deep foveae, the sides with some smaller more or less con- 

 cealed ones. Elytra at base scarcely wider than base of pro- 

 thorax, rather strongly dilated to about the middle, and then 

 strongly diminishing in width to apex ; with a large fovea on 

 each side of base ; punctures indistinct. Femora stout, lower 

 surface finely grooved. Length 2 2-3rd mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania : Marrawah (A. M. Lea). 



Readily distinguished from laiigi, and the preceding species, 

 by the dark elytra with conspicuous markings. The apical spot 

 commences on the suture about suuunit of the posterior de- 

 clivity, the median ones do not touch the sides or suture, and 

 each extends from about the basal fourth to slightlj- beyond the 

 middle. The femora at the apex are almost as stout as in those 

 species, but the inflation is nuich less abrupt, and they are 

 finely but distinctly grooved almost- throughout. 



One specimen was taken from an ants' nest^ under a stone, 

 a second under a near by stone but not associated with ants. 



SiLPHIDAE. 



Anisotoma myrniecopliiJa, n.sp. 



Castaneous, appendages somewhat paler; club infuscate. 

 liead with small dense punctures. Prothorac with numer- 

 ous but very indistinct punctures. Elytra with regular rows 



1 A small leddish-browii species, probably' an Irido)nurinex. 



