Australian Cistdidae. 65 



Habitat. — Brisbane, Queensland (H. Hacker), Camden, N.S.W. 

 (Macleay Mus.-). 



Many specimens sent by the Queensland Mus., also from the 

 South Aus. Mus., from the same source. The colour is variable 

 from a unieolorous grey-brown to a reddish-brown, the latter show- 

 ing the reddish legs, and in some examples a partly reddish abdo- 

 men. Types in the Queensland Museum. 



Ghromorrtoea ochracea, n. sp. 



Narrowly ovate, upper surface and prosternum flavous, abdomen 

 black, sometimes yellow, legs yellow (in some examples apex of 

 femora and the whole tibiae black) antennae with basal joints 

 yellow, the rest black, whole surface clothed with yellow adpressed 

 hair. 



Head narrower than prothorax, eyes large and prominent, widely 

 separated surface closely punctured, antennae short (not extending 

 far beyond base of prothorax), joints less widely triangular than 

 in C. fusca, joint 3 scarcely longer than 4, 4-10 of equal length, but 

 successively wider, 11th ovate, as wide and long as 10. Prothorax 

 subquadrate. a little rounded in front, rectangular at base, trun- 

 cate at base and apex, medial line indicated near base only, cloth- 

 ing as in C. fusca. Scutellum small, oval. Elytra convex, slightly 

 wider than prothorax at base, shoulders rounded, apex less acute 

 than in C. fusca, very finely striate punctate, the punctures 

 obscured by the close recumbent hair. Underside less strongly 

 punctate than in C . fusca. 



Dimensions. — C)-f> x 2-.'? mm. 



Habitat. — Galston (Sydney district, Dumbrell), Mackay, Queens- 

 land (Adelaide and Melbourne Museums). 



Thirteen specimens examined, show an insect very near some of 

 the ligther coloured specimens of C. fusca, but evidently differing, 

 apart from colour distinctions, in the shorter, squared, prothorax, 

 greater size, more robust form, and quite differently shaped an- 

 tennal joints. 



Type in the South Australian Museum. 



Chrowomoea opacicollis, n. sp. 



Elongate, elliptic ; dark chestnut brown, prothorax reddish, and 

 (with the head) opaque, elytra very nitid, underside nitid piceous 

 red, almost black at apex of abdomen, upper surface sparsely clothed 

 with long upright white hairs. Head and pronotum coarsely, con- 



