148 Arthur M. Lea: 



and the tibiae, tarsi and antennae (excepting club, which is 

 dark) more or less reddish. Others are almost entirely flavous- 

 red, or entirely dark-red. Others are more or less reddish, with 

 the prothorax (except at its apex) and head darker, and femora 

 darker or not. Seen from the sides, each elytral interstice 

 appears to be finely serrated, the serrations being caused by 

 granules, some of which become more conspicuous towards the 

 apex ; the punctures, though of large size, are somewhat ob- 

 scured by the clothing. 



Ficicis koehelei^ n. sp. 



Reddish-brown or black, scape funicle, and tarsi paler. 

 Clothed with short, stout, pale setae ; depressed, except on 

 elytra, where it forms regular series ; on abdomen denser and 

 finer than elsewhere ; prothorax and elytra, in addition, with 

 very fine indistinct pubescence. 



Head regularly convex, with very minute and indistinct 

 punctures. Rostrum concave in middle. Prothorax about once 

 and one-half as wide as long, apex slightly more than two-thirds 

 the width of base ; with very dense punctures, rather small on 

 disc, but becoming larger and subgranulate towards sides and 

 apex. Elytra about twice as long as prothorax, and just a 

 trifle wider; striate-punctate, punctures large, but partially 

 concealed ; interstices narrower than striae, granulate-serrate 

 suture depressed at base, but rest of base not finely raised. 

 Length 2 l-3rd mm. 



Hah. — Queensland (Henry Hacker), Barron Falls ( A. Koebele). 



Two specimens are almost or quite black, another is blackish 

 with the elytra somewhat paler, and three others are nowhere 

 (except the eyes) black. Seen from the sides, the granules of 

 the elytral interstices cause these to a])pear very finely serrated, as 

 in the preceding species. But it differs from that species in being 

 slightly larger and wider, with the elytral clothing of two 

 kinds, with the base not raised, and the prothoracic punctures 

 different. 



Two specimens from Cairns may represent the other sex of 

 this species, or possibly a distinct one. They differ in having 

 no elytral granules, and consequently the serrated appearance 



