214 Arthur M. Lea: 



is certainly close to gulosus, hnt the head and piothorax are not 

 shining black as in that species, and the inflation of the front 

 tibiae is somewhat different. It is smaller and liairier than colo- 

 bopsiti, more densely clothed than depifHsus and f/riffitlii, less 

 depresseti ; elytra and prothorax not tpiite the same as base, ana 

 antennae soniewhat shorter. 



The eighth joint of the antennae is fully twice the width of the 

 seventh. The basal fovcae of the prothoiax are larger and closer 

 together than usual; connecting them is a short impi'ession that 

 appears (juite absent from some directinns, Ijut from other causes 

 than to appear confiueut ; the impression is continued to eacll side, 

 where it joins in with a 'lateral impression, which, however, i.s 

 partially concealed by clothing. 



One specimen has the metasternum and alxlomen ahnost l)lack. 



Scydmaenus pilosicoUi.^, n.sp. 



Dark castaneous, elytra slightly palei- than prothorax, legs pale 

 castaneous, tarsi and palpi flavous. Elytra with moderately dense, 

 suberect, short, pale hairs; prothorax densely clothed at sides, and 

 sparsely elsewhere; head rather spai-sely clothed, l)ut with a loose 

 fascicle on each side of base. 



Head moderately transverse; very indistinctly l)ilol)ed betweer; 

 antennae. Eyes small and prominent. Antennae moderately long; 

 club four-jointed. Prothomx slightly longer than wide; base with 

 two large and almost confluent foveae in middle, and one on each 

 side. Elytra with outlines as in preceding species. Legs mode- 

 rately long; hind coxae distinctly, but not very widely sepaiated. 

 Length, 1^ nmi. 



Hah. — Tasmania : Hobart, from moss, Lc^ng Bay. (A. M. Lea.) 



Slightly larger, hairier, and with slightly stouter and less con- 

 spicuous club than in the preceding species, and prothoracic im- 

 pressions deeper. Larger, hairier, and wider than nrularis. 

 Slightly smaller than colobopsis, nariower. more convex and more 

 densely clothed, and basal parts of prothorax and elytra not quite 

 the same. 



The disc of the pronotum, although not densely clothed, is not 

 glabrous as in so many species of the genus. The seventh joint of 

 the antennae is slightly larger than the sixth, and almost two-thirds 

 of the width of, and somewhat shorter than, the eighth; the latt<ir 

 is somewhat narrowei' than tlie ninth, so that the club is not very 

 conspicuously four- jointed, although <|uite decidedly so. The pro- 



