218 Arthur M. Lea: 



Elytra with not very numerous and rather sliort, subdepressed. 

 pale hairs; prothorax moderately clothed at sides, great portion of 

 disc glabrous; head sparsely flotlied. without basal fascicles. 



Head about as long as wide ; feebly bilobed between antennae. 

 Eves of moderate size and rather prominent. Antennae long and 

 rather thin ; club conspicuously four-jointed. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide; base with two foveae of moderate size, and con- 

 nected by a rather strong impression. Elytra moderately long, 

 base .slightly wider than prothorax, and almost twice as wide across 

 middle; sides moderately and evenly idunded. Leris moderately 

 long; hind coxae distinctly but not very widely separated; front 

 tibiae dilated to apex in male. Length, 1 1/6 mm. 



Hah.— ^out\\ Australia : Adelaide, (H. H. D. Griffith.) 



Darker than the preceding species, with longer antennae and 

 with narrower and longer elytra; the suture is subdepressed to- 

 wards the base, as it is also in that species, although this charac- 

 ter is not of much use in distinguishing species. It is a trifle 

 larger than rlvularis, joints of club luore rounded, prothoracic 

 foveae less sharply defined, more distant, and with a feeble con- 

 necting depression ; and the head and prothorax not shining black 

 as in that species. The antennae are decidedly longer and thinner 

 than in ii si fat us. The head has a shallow impression close to each 

 eye. l:mt from certain directions each of the impressions appears 

 like a small fovea, much as in amplipeiinis, a species which other- 

 wise it has little in common with. 



One female lias tlie body entirely pale castaneous. with the 

 appendages flavous, but it is probably immature. 



Scydmaenus fuscipalp/s, n.sp. 



Dark castaneous. suture still darker, under surface black, femora 

 deeply infuscated, tibiae and palpi paler, tarsi flavous. Clothing 

 much as in the preceding species, except that the entire disc of the 

 pronotum is glabrous, and that the liead has a loose fascicle on 

 each side of the base. 



Head moderately transverse; very indistinctly bilobed between 

 antennae. Eyes small and prominent. Antennae long and 

 moderately thin ; clul) four-jointed. Prothorax distinctly longer 

 than wide, base hifovcatc. I'Uytra somewhat depressed; outlines 

 as in preceding species. Legs moderately long; hind coxae mode- 

 rately separated. Length, 1^ mm. 



I/ab.—S. Australia : Adelaide (H. H. D. Griffith). 



