Australian and Tomininiaii ('ohoptera . 73 



especially obvious at the bases of tlie tibiae and the iiiediaii angles 

 of the tibiae are all less aeiite. My speeiiuens of iiKiuilliid and 

 striatel/a are from Liverpool, Xew South V\'aks. I think that the 

 elevations on the elytra behind the seutelhun are likely to afford good 

 specitic characters should many more species be brought to light." 



*( 'lihiiin/dniisis hnKjipcx, Jjca. 



Of this species, Mr. Davey recently wrote to me: — 

 ■■ I made a tine haiil of C loiaji pen the other day, took three in 

 the one nest under a stone, one a small specimen, and tAvo large 

 ones ; you might not think it (judging by their legs), but my experi- 

 ence is that they are very ditticult to spot, they seem to favour nests 

 l)uilt under pieces of ironstone, and when they are at rest with their 

 legs all tucked a.way, they have a remarkable likeness to the nodules 

 on this stone, and all I have taken have ahvays been on ironstone 

 with the green ants."i 



Mr. Davey has taken the species at Ararat, a fresh locality. 



*(' l(J(nii!jd()p><is (jl (thill. Lea. 



There is a specimen of this species in the (Queensland Museum. It 

 differs from the type in having the elytra rather more conspicuously 

 |)unctured (much less conspicuously than in opacd, however), and the 

 prothorax of a dingA' red, with the edges narrowly black, and the 

 middle of the base obscurely piceous. 



It was taken by Mr. Hacker at Brisbane, under a stone, from a 

 nest of Ectatoinmu metaUicuin ; and in sending it he wrote: — "It 

 did not attempt to escape, but kept turning round and round in the 

 same place ; and, when it did move, it had a curious jerky run 

 ditt'erent to any other beetle I've seen." 



NlTlULLIDAE. 

 Hnii-liii pi- pi US I iiqinl inns, n.sj). (tig. 0.) 



Dark piceous-brown : sides of prothorax, base of elytra and all the 

 appendages reddish. Upper surface with very short and rather 

 indistinct pubescence, prothorax and elytra distinctly fringed with 

 short setae ; under surface with distinct and somewhat golden 

 pubescence. 



Head about twice as wide as Imig. a distinct impression towards 

 each side on clypeal stiture ; with dense and rather small, but clearly 

 defined ])uncttires. Antennae scarcely longci- than head ; first joint 

 slout, about as long as three following combined ; club subcircular. 



1 Ketaloinma nutallicuin. 



