Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhide. 143 
Head widely rounded in front, with dense and rather coarse clearly- 
defined punctures. Antenne stout, third joint thinner but no 
longer than second. Prothorax strongly convex, sides in places 
quite vertical, disc towards base almost flattened; densely and 
coarsely punctate. Scutellwm minute. Hlytra strongly convex, sub- 
cordate, punctures almost as on prothorax, epipleuree very narrow, 
strongly narrowed behind hind coxz and with sparse but rather 
large punctures. Under-surface with fairly numerous and distinct 
punctures. Length 2 mm. 
Hab, TASMANIA: Mount Wellington. 
The head is usually of a dark metallic green,the prothorax 
is usually also metallic green, but much brighter than the 
head, its sides are widely diluted with red, but the colours 
are not sharply limited; the elytra are black with a bronzy 
or greenish gloss, their apex and sides are widely diluted 
with red, the red being sometimes advanced along the 
suture; the meso- and metasternum are usually somewhat 
darker than the rest of the under-surface. One specimen 
has the dark parts of the head and elytra slightly bronzed, 
but the prothorax of a beautiful purple. 
A lovely little insect, all my specimens of which were 
obtained in moss on stones continually wet with spray, 
just above the Silver Falls. 
PEDILOPHORUS CARISSIMUS, N. sp. 
Of a bright metallic coppery green; tubercles coppery bronze ; 
under-surface and appendages black ; second joint of antenne, palpi, 
claws and trochanters of a more or less dull red. Under-surface and 
appendages with very fine pubescence, elsewhere glabrous, 
Head almost semicircularly rounded in front, with dense clearly 
defined punctures, rather smaller along middle than elsewhere, 
Antenne with third joint much thinner than and almost twice the 
length of second, seventh almost the width of eighth. Prothorax 
very strongly and almost regularly convex, densely but not very 
coarsely punctate. Scutellwum small. Hlytra very strongly convex, 
with rows of slightly elevated burnished tubercles, the whole surface 
with small evenly distributed punctures, the spaces between the 
tubercles finely shagreened ; epipleure rather narrow, and very 
narrow behind the hind cox. Under-swrface with fairly dense and 
very distinct punctures, becoming coarse on intercoxal process of 
prosternum. Length 6 mm. 
Hab, TASMANIA: summit of Mount Wellington. 
