2 1 12 Arthur M. Lea : 



Sct/dmaenus setmniger, n.sp. 



Black; elytra dark tastaneous, suture still darker, under surface 

 dark reddish-brown or black, abdomen generally pale; legs and 

 palpi fiavous, antennae somewhat darker. Upper surface glabrous, 

 except for numerous hairs at sides of prothorax, and a fascicle on 

 each side of base of head. 



Head moderately transverse, convex, rounded between antennae. 

 Eyes small and prominent. Antennae moderately long and rather 

 thin ; club conspicuously four-jointed, but seventh joint distinctly 

 longer and wider than sixth, although decidedly narrower and 

 slightly shorter than eighth. Prothorax about as long as wide ; 

 base with two small deep foveae. Elytra rather wide and depressed ; 

 base slightly wilder than base of prothorax, the basal impressions 

 comparatively small ; sides gently dilated to beyond the middle, and 

 then regularly rounded to apex. Legs moderately long, hind coxae 

 moderately separated; front tibiae somewhat inflated towards apex 

 in male. Length, 1^ mm. 



Hah. — Victoria (Macleay Museum), Portland (H. W. Davey); 

 N.S.W. : Forest Reefs; Tasmania : Jordan River, abundant in flood 

 debris, New Norfolk, in tussocks, Holjart, in moss, Launceston (A. 

 M. Lea). 



The size and outlines are almost exactly as in bifascicidatun, but 

 the colours and habits are very different. In general appearance, 

 colours, etc.. it is much like glabrijjennis in miniature; gulosus is 

 frequently like it in colour, but is considerably narrower, with the 

 elytra clothed. The black head and prothorax readily distinguish 

 it from most of the species having the elytra glabrous. 



The prothoracic foveae from some directions appear to be con- 

 nected together by a strong transverse impression, but from other 

 directions this impression appears rather faint ; from some it 

 causes the base to appear quadrifoveate. 



Some specimens, from the Tweed River, differ in luvving some 

 sparse straggling hairs about the basal third of the elytra, but I 

 can find no other differences. 



Sci/dniueniis f itnbri colli. •<, n.sp. 



Bright castaneous, elytra (sutuie not at all) very little paler 

 than head and prothorax. antennae somewhat ]ialei- ; femora and 

 tibiae almost, the taisi and ])ali)i (|uitc', flavons. Upper surface 

 glabrous, except for numerous stramineous hairs at sides of pro- 

 thorax, and a small fascicle on each side of base of head. 



