]oO Arthur M. Lea: 



very little wider than prothorax ; striate-punctate, punctures 

 fairly large, but partially concealed ; interstices with numerous 

 granules, of which the most conspicuous is on the fifth in- 

 terstice, forming a preapical callus ; interstices separately raised 

 at base. Length l^-lj mm. 



$ (?) Differs in having the elytra more convex and cylin- 

 drical, without granules, except the preapical callus, and a few 

 at base caused by the elevation of the interstices there : the 

 striation rather feeble, with small punctures, and the interstices 

 with numerous small punctures. 



Hab. — ^Tasniiinia (Aug. Simson, No. 2074), Hobart, Mount 

 Wellington, Bruni Island, etc.; Victoria: Emerald (A. M. Lea). 



A small subglobular species, that may be taken in abundance 

 on dead and dying wattle trees, especially when newly barked. 

 The elytra, especially in the male, are frequently diluted with 

 red, except at the base and sides. The funicle has the first joint 

 stout, briefly elliptic, and longer than any other, second about 

 half the length of first, and about the length of third, third to 

 seventh gradually increasing in width, very close together and 

 closely joined to club. The six apical joints are so close to- 

 gether that it is impossible to distinguish them under a hand 

 lens, and even under a compound paper a suitable light is very 

 necessary. On the male there are eight rows of conspicuous 

 granules on each elytron, of which the first four rows are short 

 and subbasal, the fifth is slightly longer, and the sixth and 

 seventh are longest of all, and curve round so as to join in 

 with the preapical callus of the fifth : the seventh and eighth 

 are also rather short, but are not subbasal. 



A second and smaller species from New South Wales is known 

 to me, but only from the female, so is not now described. 



BrEXTHID/E. 



Ectocemus to maculatus, Montr.' 

 ruficauda^ Bates. 

 \ar. pterygorrJiinns, Gestro. 

 In many Australian collections I have seen specimens of a 

 remarkable Brenthid standing \inder the name of E. ptery- 



1 Ann. Soc. Agr. Lyon, vii., i., p. 37. 



