^^^!,' 1 GouDiE, Coleopteva of N.-W . Victoria. -ji 



I4()(). Psclaphus geminatus, Westw. 



In this, the typical genus, the palpi are usually strongly 

 developed, in some species being as long as the antenna,\ On 

 a foggy June morning a small nest of Ponera lutea proved a 

 mine of wealth. From it were taken, besides P. geminatus, 

 two other species of Pselaphida^, two species of Scydmanida;, 

 and several yellow aphides. 



1477. Ger alius punctipennis, Scliauf. 



Batrisodes myvmecophilus. Lea, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, 

 1910, xxiii. (new series), part i, p. 148. 

 Inhabits nests of Ponera lutea. Mr. Lea records it from near 

 Sydney, associating with the same ant. 



1492. Euplectops gibbosus. King. 

 A rare species, taken with P. lutea. 



1536. Bryaxis polita. King. 



A very minute insect, about i mm. in length, described as 

 from Parramatta, New South Wales, by the late Rev. R. L. 

 King, one of the " pioneers " in the difficult task of classifying 

 the Pselaphidffi and Scydmaenidae. My specimen taken under 

 a stick in a damp spot. 



Eupines flavoapicalis, Lea, loc. cit., p. 150. 



Recorded from Victoria, New South Wales, and Western 

 Australia, in nests of Ponera lutea and Iridomyrmex rufoniger. 

 In his fine paper on " Australian and Tasmanian Pselaphidae," 

 recently published, Mr. A. M. Lea described eighteen new 

 species of Eupines. 



Ctenisophus inipressus. Sharp. 



This also appears to be a widely distributed species, occurring 

 in the galleries of termites in New South Wales and Western 

 Australia. I once took some specimens under the bark of a 

 dead scrub-wattle, in company with the ant Crematogaster 

 l(Bviceps. 



1559. Somatipion globnlifer, Schaufuss. 



One of the largest of our Pselaphidas, further distinguished 

 by the large round terminal joint of its antennre. Found in 

 nests of /. nitidus and C. hericeps. Collecting one afternoon, 

 my brother and myself secured over twenty s}iccimens by 

 si)litting open hollow logs in which the ants were li\ing. 

 Described from King George's Sound, Western Australia. 

 1565. Articcrus curvirornis, Westw. 



This genus is readily recognized by the elongated head, 

 resembling somewliat the rostrum of the Curculionida". and 

 by the antennie, which are composed of a single joint. In 

 .1. curvicornis the antennje are short, rounded, and flattened, 



