Goleoptera, Part I. 139 



Xylehoriis funereus, n. sp. 



Deep black and shining, under-surface somewhat diluted with 

 red ; antennae and tibiae somewhat flavous, rest of legs darker. 

 With rather long and more or less erect yellowish setae or hairs, 

 somewhat irregularly distributed. 



Head with numerous punctures of moderate size, but not 

 sharply defined. Prothorax about as long as wide, apical two- 

 fifths strongly granulate-punctate, middle of disc with small 

 dense punctures, elsewhere almost impunctate. Elytra not 

 twice the length of prothorax ; with regular rows of distinct, 

 but not large punctures ; posterior declivity with small scat- 

 tered granules, becoming small conical tubercles on the third 

 interstice. Tibiae strongly curved and serrated outwardly. 

 Length 3J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Cairns (E. Allen). 



The deep black colour of the entire upper surface will readily 

 distinguish from all previously described Australian species ; in 

 build it is much like compressus, but there are three conical 

 granules on the third interstice, instead of only two. A second 

 but much smaller black species occurs in Queensland, but, as it 

 is. represented before me by a single broken specimen, it is not 

 now described. 



Cryphalus compactus., n. sp. 



Of a rather dingy flavous, granules somewhat darkejr. 

 Clothed with very fine pale pubescence, and with fine suberect 

 setae. 



Prothorax not much wider than the length down middle ; 

 with dense minute punctures ; with numerous rather rough 

 granules, more or less transversely arranged. Elytra about once 

 and one-half as long as wide ; with dense minute punctures, and 

 feeble remnants of striation. Length 2 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Port Denison (Australian Museum). 



A pale robust species. The granules occupy almost the entire 

 width of the prothorax at apex, but then they disappear hind- 

 wards from the sides, and terminate in the middle before the 

 base is reached, so that in front the space occupied by them is 

 rounded, and behind triangular. 



