Aitstralian and Tasmanian Scydmaenidae. 21") 



thoracic foveae are umistially large, and the lateral ones are par- 

 tially vsiible from above; they are all so close together that there- 

 is not room for a conspicuous connecting impression, but fi'om some 

 directions the base appears to l)e conspicuously traversed by a 

 rather deep impression. 



Scydinatii us latebricola, n.sp. 



Black, under surface piceous; pruthorax diluted with red at 

 base; elytra dark castaneous, antennae paler; palpi and legs 

 tiavous, knees slightly infuscated. Elytra Avith rather long, sub- 

 erect, pale hairs; prothorax densely clothed at sides and glabrous 

 elsewhere; head with a loose fascicle on each side of base, very 

 sparsely clothed elsewhere. 



Head slightly longer than wide; very indistinctly bilol)ed between 

 antennae. Eyes small and prominent. Antennae of moderate 

 length; club conspicuously four-jointed. Prothorax distinctly 

 longer than wide; with two round, moderately deep, but not very 

 large foveae, isolated from each other, but each connected with one 

 on the side. Elytra moderately long; base distinctly wider than 

 prothorax, and almost twice as wide across middle, sides mode- 

 rately and evenly rounded. Legs moderately long; hind coxae dis- 

 tinctly but not very widely separated. Length, 1^ mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania : New Norfolk, in tussocks, (A. M. Lea.) 



Very close to gitlosiis, but a trifle larger, club somewhat stouter 

 and shorter, head more densely clothed, prothorax more densely 

 clothed at sides, and elytra darker, with longer clothing. From 

 clientulus it differs in being larger and darker, club stoutei-, and 

 clothing longer and darker. It is rather like a large specimen of 

 the preceding species, but the prothoracic foveae are different, and 

 the hind coxae are a trifle closer together. 



The eighth joint of the club is the length of, but slightly 

 narrower than, the ninth, but is fully twice the width of the 

 seventh, the latt-er is very little larger than the sixth. The lateral 

 foveae of the prothorax are partially visible from above; the im- 

 pression connecting each with one of the medio-basal foveae is very 

 conspicuous from some directions, but apparently absent frmn 

 others. 



One specimen has the entire upper surface of a dark castaneous. 



Scydmaenus walkeri, n.sp. 

 Bright reddish-castaneous, legs somewhat paler, tarsi and paljii 

 flavous. Elytra with rather short and subdepressed pale hairs; 



