630 COLEOPTERA. 



the obconical following ones ; club I'longate-oval, obsoletely quadriarticu- 

 late. Tibiae flexuous. 



Underside nigrescent, with short depressed tawny setae. Fifth segment 

 not longer than second, lightly impressed behind the middle. 



Like /. cuprellus the ocular lobes are well developed, the posterior 

 corbels have duplicate external cilia but the space between these is very 

 narrow. /. obsoletus is well differentiated by the absence of rostral carinae 

 and grooves and the elongate second joint of the funiculus. The scales on 

 the rostrum, as well as some of those on the thorax, seem to indicate that 

 fresh unabraded specimens will prove to be considerably brighter and more 

 metallic than the one found during winter amongst decaying leaves. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 10 mm. ; breadth, 3^ mm. 



Speargrass Creek ; 13th June, 1916. One only, found by Mr. T. Hall. 



4204. Inophloeus sexnodosus sp. nov. 



Oblong, slightly convex, opaque ; thickly covered with small, depressed, 

 greyish or obscure tawny squamae and setae, some setae on the thorax 

 erect but very short and infuscate ; antennae and tarsi rufo-piceous, the 

 body fuscous or nigrescent. 



Rostrum robust, as long as thorax, hardly at all dilated in front, not 

 carinate ; scrobes open above near the apex but prolonged obliquely down- 

 wards more than half-way to the eyes. Thorax very slightly broader than 

 long, base and apex subtruncate, rather wider near the front than else- 

 where, nearly straight behind ; disc somewhat uneven, with some wart-like 

 elevations, the bare spots as finely punctured as the rostrum, the longitu- 

 dinal groove often obsolete on the middle. Scutellum distinct. Elytra 

 2h times the length of thorax, very little broader than it is at the base, 

 more than a third broader behind the oblique shoulders, their sides gently 

 rounded as far as the hind thighs, somewhat sinuate just behind these, 

 the declivity much narrowed and almost vertical, with slightly prolonged, 

 thick, divergent apices ; dorsum distinctly striate -punctate, third inter- 

 stices obtusely raised at the base, the fifth only slightly and interruptedly 

 behind, and terminating as a large horizontal nodosity, the nodosity on 

 the third, though smaller, is as large as that on each side of the suture, 

 these are on nearly the same plane as the summit of the declivity, which 

 is darker than the disc ; half-way down the pale declivity there is a pair 

 of nodosities, and one at the side just underneath the larger one on the 

 fifth interstice. 



Scape setigerous, gently incrassate, reaching the back of the eye ; the 

 elongate second joint of funiculus hardly as long as the basal, joints 

 3-7 obconical, successively shortened ; club elongate-oval, triarticulate. 

 Anterior tibiae slightly curved externally, the others flexuous. 



Underside fuscous, covered with depressed pale-tawny scales and elongate 

 setae. Prosternum incurved in front. Basal ventral segment broadly 

 rounded between the coxae, slightly sinuate behind, rather longer than 

 second, fifth longer than third and fourth together, much narrower, finely 

 punctate. 



Fern. — Elytral apices less dehiscent and prolonged, the posterior 

 nodosities not quite as prominent, prosternum more deeply emarginate. 

 7^ X 3 mm. 



Ocular lobes well developed. Posterior corbels with duplicate cilia, 

 the interval narrow. 



