11 



156 tJ"^y, 



2. — Trichosalpingus quadrinotatus, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, depressed, shining, thickly clothed with fine sericeous 

 pubescence ; piceous, the head and a space down the middle of the prothorax 

 rufescent or obscurely rufescent, the four or five basal joints of the antennae, 

 the labrum, palpi, and legs, and two large spots on the <iisc of each elytron 

 (one bi'oad and oblique, before the middle, the other oblong-oval, placed near 

 the suture towards the apex), testaccoixs ; the entire surface densely, minutely 

 punctate. Head broad in ^ , narrower in ? , the eyes more prominent and a 

 little larger in g than in $ ; antennae slender, short, a little longer in J, 

 joints 5-10 sub-triangular, 1 1 ovate. Pi-othorax broader than long, about as 

 wide as the head exclusive of the eyes, rather convex, compressed at the sides 

 posteriorly, and with a deep oblique groove extending for some dista,nce forwards 

 from just within each hind-angle. Elytra moderately elongate, much broader 

 than the head, widened to a little beyond the middle and arcuately narrowed 

 thence to the apex ; depressed on the disc below the base, and with indications 

 of faint impressed lines which extend to near the apex. Legs short, slender, 

 the femora moderately incrassate, the tibiae feebly curved. Length 2f-3, 

 breadth 1-1 t^ mm. 



Hah.: New South Wales, Blue Mountains and Sydney {Ferguson). 



Two specimens, tlie larger one from Sydney, with wider head, 

 assumed to be male. Near T. ohscurus Blackb., but with the puncturing 

 of the entire upper surface much finer, the prothorax moi-e uneven, 

 narrower, and less transverse, the elytra maculate as in various 

 Dromiids. 



SCBAPTIINA. 

 TOLMBTES, n. n. 



Tolmerus Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XLIV, p. Ill (1900) 

 {nee Loew, 1849 ; Forster, 1888 ; Heine, 1890). 



Fairmaire referred Tolmerus to the Melandryidae, s. str., with 

 which it agrees in the form of the maxillary palpi, coxae, etc. ; but as 

 the head is abruptly constricted into a narrow neck behind, the genus 

 should be placed under the section Scraptiina, of which it is an 

 exaggerated form. The eyes are deeply emarginate, the third antennal 

 joint is very short, the prothorax is very sharply margined from the base 

 to near the apex, and the anterior and intermediate coxal cavities are 

 somewhat open externally, with visible trochantin. The generic name 

 is thrice preoccupied in Zoology. 



1. — Tohnetes longipennis. 

 Tolmerus longipennis Fairm., loc. cit., p. 112 ; Result. Belg., pi. 1, 

 fig. 13 (1906). 



