120 Arthur M. Lea : 



Although at a glance this species has a very commonplace 

 appearance, it is not very close to any with which I am ac- 

 quainted, and the long terminal joint of the antennae should 

 render it easy of recognition. The long hairs on the head and 

 prothorax are scarcely half the length of those on the elytra 

 and abdomen, and are visible with difficulty from certain direc- 

 tions. The unique specimen under examination was taken from 

 an ants' nest. 



Coil soma bipaj-iituni^ n. sp. 



$. .Shining. Testaceous-red, head (muzzle excepted) glossy 

 black ; metasternum and abdomen infuscate, two apical seg- 

 ments and the apex of each of the others paler ; legs and an- 

 tennae reddish-testaceous, base of antennae and the palpi paler. 

 Clothed with short golden pubescence, longer on abdomen than 

 elsewhere ; sides of the latter with long brownish or blackish 

 hairs, becoming rather numerous on the two apical segments. 



Antennae rather long; sixth to tenth joints transverse, 

 eleventh scarcely as long as two })receding combined. Pro- 

 thorax strongly transverse, base truncate ; with sparse and in- 

 distinct punctures. Elytra slightly narrower and slightly longer 

 than prothorax, the sides slightly upturned and diminishing in 

 width from shoulders to apex, shortest along suture, posterior 

 angles scarcely rounded ; with moderately dense, subasperate 

 punctures. Length 3 J, to apex of elytra 1^ mm. 



Hah. — Victoria : Emerald. 



A rather depressed species somewhat resembling triangulum, 

 but flatter, the elytra differently coloured and the antennae 

 different, the six terminal joints being considerably flatter than 

 is usual; in general appearance it closely resembles sertum, but 

 besides being rather narrower it may be at once distinguished 

 from that species by its parti-coloured head. 



Co)ios(>ina ortjiodoxum^ n. sj^. 



$. Shining. Dark reddish-testaceous; licad (nui/zle ex- 

 cepted) almost black ; elytra, sterna and abdomen clouded with 

 piceous, the apical segments and the apex of each of the others 

 paler ; legs clear reddish-testaceous ; antennae infuscate, their 



