Australian and Tasmanian Scydmaenidae. 208 



I/ead moderately transverse, feebly bilobed between antennae. 

 Eyes small and very prominent. Antennae i-ather long; club four- 

 jointed. Prothora.r about as long" as wide; base with two small, 

 deep and i-atlier distant foveae. Elytra at extreme base no wider 

 than base of protliorax ; sides moderately dilated to just before 

 the middle, tlience narrowed to apex. Legs rather long; hind 

 coxae separated almost t'lie width of impression at apex of metas- 

 ternum. Length, 1^ mm. 



Ilah. — Tasmania : Jordan River, in flood debris, Hobart, Mount 

 Wellington, in moss. Waratah. (A. M. Lea.) 



Larger than casfo/ieo(/labe/\ elytra slightly longer in proportion, 

 and prothorax conspicuously fringed. Bifasciculafus, Avhich has 

 a similar fringe, is shorter, with wider elytra and slightly shorter 

 and tliinner antennae. In general appearance rather like small 

 specimens of c/anis, but antennae thinner, although not longer, the 

 joints (if the club less closely articulated, and basal impressions of 

 prothorax not quite the same. 



The club is certainly four-jointed, but as its joints slightly in- 

 crease in width, and as the seventh is distinctly wider and some- 

 what longer than the sixth, from some directions it almost appears 

 to be five-jointed. From some directions a rather shallow impres- 

 sion connecting the protlioracic foveae is visible; but from others 

 these appear to be completely isolated. 



Srj/d)uaein(s fiavoapicalts, n.sp. 



Bright castaneous; elytra slightly paler, but becoming flavous at 

 apex; legs and palpi flavous. Clothing as in preceding species. 



Head moderately transverse; rounded betAveen antennae. Eyes 

 rather small and prominent. Antennae rather thin; club dis- 

 tinctly four- jointed. PrntJmrar slightly wider than long, with two 

 deep l)asal foveae. Elytra moderately wide, at base slightly wider 

 than base of prothorax. sides regularly rounded and widest just 

 befoi-e middle. Leyx long; hind coxae moderately separated. 

 Length, ]| mm. 



Hah. — N.S. Wales : Ropes Creek, Sydney (Macleay Museum), 

 Clarence River, Forest Reefs, Tamworth, Windsor (A. M. Lea.) 



Slightly larger than castaneoglahtr, and prothoracic impressions 

 connected across base; that species also has not a conspicuous 

 lateral fringe of hairs. From the preceding species it differs in 

 being slightly smallei-. elytra rather less narrowed at base, and 

 antennae shorter and thinner. 



