A ustralian and Tasmanian Seydmaenidae. -2 1 7 



pfaiaiKe it is voiv close to tlie preceding species, but antennae ai-e 

 decidedly sliortcr, witli the ninth and tenth joints distinctly twice 

 as wide as long, instead of not nuuli wider tlian long. The eighth 

 joint is as long as the ninth, bnt slightly narrower, and is fnlly 

 twice the width of the seventh, the latter is scarcely perceptibly 

 larger tliaii the sixth. 



Sci/(I iiKicintx (le prtssiis, n.sp. 



Bright pale castaneous, sntui-e slightly darker than the rest of 

 the elytra ; legs and palpi Hav(nis. Elytra with sparse, subde- 

 pressed. pale hairs, prothorax moderately clothed at sides, and 

 glabrous eUewhere ; liead with a feeble fascicle on each side of 

 base; very sparsely clothed elsewhere. 



Head moderately transverse, very feebly bilobed between an- 

 tennae. Eyes small and prominent. Antennae j-atlier long; club 

 conspicuously four-jointed. L'ruihorar almost' as long as wide; 

 base bifoveat<?. Elytra wide and somewhat depressed; base distinctly 

 w^der than prothorax, and more than twice as wide across middle; 

 sides strongly and evenly rounded. Metasternnni more convex than 

 usual. Legs long; hind coxae moderately separated; femora sub- 

 clavate. Length, 1 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia (Macleay Museum), Adelaide, (H. H. D. 

 Griffith). 



A small depressed species with comparatively wide elytra, long 

 -antennae and legs, and sliort clothing. It is fairly close to tnas- 

 tersi, but is more depressed, and the antennae are stouter, with 

 the club sliorter. It is rather wider than ralvlcf/is, and the jiro- 

 thoracic impressions are different. 



The eighth joint of the antennae is feebly ti-anvei-se, about twice 

 the width of the seventli. and slightly narrower than the ninth, the 

 lattei- in turn being slightly narrower than the tenth; the eleventh 

 is briefly ovate, and very decidedly sliorter than the two preceding 

 combined; the seventh is very little larger than tlie sixth, the 

 basal foveae of the prothoi-ax are rather moi-e widely separateil than 

 usual; connecting them is an impression that is only moderately 

 distinct from soma directions, but which from others causes the 

 base to appear transversely sulcate. 



Sct/dmaetius f/riffithi, n.sp. 



Dark castaneous, elytra (suture excepted^ generally somewhat 

 paler; under surface piceous or black; legs and palpi castaneous. 



