144 Arthur M. Lea: 



figured as two-jointed, and that is certainly its appearance under 

 a Coddington lens, but under a quarter-inch power seven joints 

 may be seen, the first small and almost (from above, quite) con- 

 cealed by the scape, the second fairly distinct, and then five very 

 closely connected and strongly transverse joints, regularly and 

 conjointly increasing in width to apex. The claw joint has a 

 minute basal piece, so that the tarsi are really five-jointed. 

 It certainly does not belong to Hylesinus, which has a sub- 

 solid club, and it certainly belongs to the Pklaeotribi, as de- 

 fined by Leconte, who does not mention the number of joints of 

 the funicle. Chapuis gives as a sub-family character of the 

 Fhloeotribidae the funicle as five-jointed. On the whole it 

 seems best to refer the genus to the vicinity of Phloeotribus. 



Hylesinus cordipennis, n. sp. 



Black or almost black, antennae and tarsi reddish, knees and 

 tips of tibiae more or less diluted with red. Clothed with very 

 fine pubescence, longer and more noticeable about mouth and on 

 coxae than elsewhere. 



Head with very dense and rather small punctures, face gently 

 concave. Prothorax about as wide as the length down middle, 

 but much shorter at sides, sides strongly rounded, base with 

 a strong scutellar lobe, a very shallow curved impression on each 

 side of base ; with very dense and rather small punctures ; 

 towards sides granulate-punctate. Elytra cordate ; striate- 

 punctate, punctures deep and suboblong ; interstices flattened, 

 very densely punctate, towards base granulate, and everywhere 

 wider than striae. Under surface with dense, clearly-defined 

 punctures. Front coxae separated about half as much as the 

 middle pair ; tibiae dilated to apex and rather strongly serrated. 

 Length 3-3J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Cairns (J. A. Anderson). 



Under a quarter-inch lens the funicle is quite distinctly 

 seven-jointed, the first ])eing fairly long, the others strongly 

 transverse and close together, but the second longer than the 

 others. The joints of the club have oblique and fairly distinct 

 sutures, and the club itself is somewhat darker than the rest of 

 the antennae. 



