30 [I'cbruaiy, 



Paloeus austeinus, n. sp. 

 Moderately elongate, narrow, subparallel, slightly depressed above, rufo-testa- 

 ceous or rufo-ferruginous, shining. Head closely, finely punctate ; the transverse 

 frontal groove deep ; the antennary orbits (or sides of the front) feebly reflexed, not 

 prominent, oblique, forming almost a continuous outline with the outer portion of 

 the eyes ; the latter rather large, very coarsely granulated, their anterior portion 

 visible from above ; the antennae short. Prothorax transversely quadrate, rounded 

 at the sides in front, the anterior angles not prominent, the hind angles acutely 

 rectangular ; thickly, finely punctate, the punctures becoming a little coarser at the 

 sides, tiie disc with a smooth narrow space along the middle. Elytra moderately 

 long, parallel in their basal half; rather finely punctate-striate, the fifth stria (as 

 usual) more deeply impressed at the base ; the interstices minutely uniseriate- 



punctate, the first (or sutural) interspace more thickly punctate. 



Length, 2|— 2| mm. 



Hah. : N. W. AusTEALiA, Roebuck Bay and Port Darwin ; 

 Uamma Island. 



Pound in some numbers by Mr. J. J. Walker in each locality ; 

 the insect occurred in Australia under bark and away from habitations. 

 In the comparatively large, coarsely granulated eyes this species 

 resembles P. minor (also from Damma Island), from which it differs 

 in its much broader shape and larger size. The antennary orbits are 

 much less prominent than in P. depressus, &c., and they do not extend 

 backwards (as in P. suhdepressus) so as to hide the anterior margin of 

 the eye when the insect is viewed from above. 



Dr. Seidlitz makes the following remarks respecting Tenehrio 

 bifoveolatus, Duftschm. (1812), which is possibly a Palorus : — " T. 

 hifoveolatus, Duftschm., is not to be referred to our species (P. 

 Paizebur(ji) nor to that of Baudi ; its occurrence in bread offers no 

 difficulty, for our species also occurs in granaries and bread, but the 

 circumstance that Duftschmid describes the closely allied P. depressus 

 as a Hypophloeus, and would certainly have put our insect (P. Batze- 

 hurgi) close to it." 



Horsell, Woking : 



December 20th, 1895. 



CEUTHORRHYNCHIDIUS NIQROTERMINATUS, Woll. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Mr. C. W. Dale, as a reply to my note on C. nigroterminatus, 

 Woll. (= Grotchi, Ch. Bris.) (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxi, p. 194.), has 

 forwarded to me for examination a specimen of a Oeuthorrhynchidius 

 from Newton Abbot, Devonshire, from Wollaston's British collection 



