220 Arthur M. Lea : 



Head lightly transverse; feebly bilobed between antennae. Eyes 

 small and prominent. Antennae moderatly long and not very thin; 

 club conspicuously four-jointed. Prothorar, slightly longer than 

 wide; base with two rather small, round, deep foveae, close to- 

 gether, but without a connecting" impression; each side with a 

 small fovea, also isolated from the median ones. Elytra i-ather 

 long, base not much wider tlian prothorax, and not twice as wid ■ 

 across middle, sides moderately and evenly rounded, -/vf.r/.s mode- 

 rately long; hind coxae distinctly but not widely separated; tibiae 

 soiViewhat stouter in male than in female. Length, \\ mm. 



Hah. — Victoria; N. S. Wales: Sydney (Macleay Museum), Nepean 

 River (A. J. Coates), Tweed, Clarence, Hawkesbury and Peel 

 Rivers, abundant in flood debris (A. M. Lea). 



The prothoracic foveae are more sharply defined and closer to- 

 gether than usual. The colours are mucli as in (julosiis, but that 

 species is somewhat larger and wider, prothoracic foveae separated 

 almost twice the distance, Ijase of elytra not quite the same, and 

 joints of club more globular. Poramaffe/is/s is also larger and 

 wider, antennae longer, and club and base of elytra different. The 

 eighth joint of the antennae is very decidedly narrower than the 

 ninth, although almost twice the width of the seventh. 



On an occasional specimen the metasternum is not much darker 

 than the elytra ; and one specimen has the entire body pale cas- 

 taneous, with the appendages still paler, but it is probably im- 

 mature. 



Scydmaeiiiis foveidisfa/is, n.sp. 



(? Dark castaneous; metasternum almost or quite black; legs and 

 palpi flavous, antennae somewhat darker. Elytra with moderately 

 numerous, short, subdepressed hairs, prothorax not very densely 

 clothed at sides and sparsely elsewhere, only middle of disc glab- 

 rous; head sparsely clothed, basal fascicles very fecltle and indis- 

 tinct. 



Head about as long as wide; gently rounded between antennae 

 Eyes small and prominent. Antennae moderately long; elul) con- 

 spicuously four-jointed. Prothorax about as long as wide; base 

 bifoveate. Elytra moderately long, extreme base no wider than 

 prothorax, and across middle less than twice as wide; sides rather 

 lightly and evenly rounded. Metasternum rather lightly convex. 

 Legs moderately long; hind coxae distinctly but not widely sepa- 

 rated; front coxae inflated. Length, 1 mm. 



