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and much closer together, with the connecting impression scarcely 

 traceable from certain directions, and not at all from others. 



The elytra, although always dark, are usually somewhat paler 

 than the head and prothorax. 



A specimen in the Macleay Museum, from Victoria, is very close, 

 to if not identical Avith this species; its elytra are rather darker, 

 l)ut I can find no other differences. 



» Scydinaenus afrojihiis, n.sp. 



Bright castaneous, antennae and legs somewhat paler, tarsi and 

 palpi flavous. Elytra with rather short, sparse, pale, depressed 

 hairs or pubescence; prothorax sparsely clothed at sides, greater 

 portion of disc glabrous; head very sparsely clothed, a few hairs on 

 each side at base, but scarcely forming fascicles. 



Head lightly transverse ; feebly bilobed between antennae. Eyes 

 small and prominent. Antennae rather long; club conspicuously 

 four-jointed. Prothorax somewhat depressed, and slightly longer 

 than wide; base bifoveate. Elytra long, at extreme base no wider 

 than prothorax, and scarcely once and one-half across middle; sides 

 gently and evenly rounded. Metasternum rather longer than usual, 

 and moderately convex. Legs moderately long; hind coxae dis- 

 tinctly but not very widely separated; front tibiae rather stouter 

 in male than in female. Length, 1 mm. 



Hab. — W. Australia : Swan and Vasse Rivers (A. M. Lea). 



A small, narrow, species, in build close to the preceding species, 

 but slightly narrower, much paler and prothoracic impressions dif- 

 ferent; the basal foveas are distinctly transverse, rather large, 

 distinctly (at least from certain directions) connected with one on 

 each side, but indistinctly connected with each other. It is smaller 

 and distinctly narrower than duplicatiis and grijfithi, and the 

 prothoracic impressions are different. It is much the size and 

 colour of Sci/dmaetiilla 2^f'silla, but the club and liind coxae are 

 different. 



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

 seventh, and fully as wide as the ninth. 



Phagonophana sutu rails, n.sp. 



Dark reddish-castaneous; elytra (sutu)-o excepted) and ajipen- 

 (lages paler. Hather densely clothed with niodei'ately long, sub- 

 t'l'cct. straiuiiieoiis liairs. 



