S 
[os] 
collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
v -shaped process of the mesosternum; legs moderately long, 
slender, the tibial spurs long; the first joint of the hind tarsi 
elongate, nearly as long as the other joints united. Length 21— 
23 mm. 
Hab. N. W. Australia—Roebuck Bay. 
Two examples, found on the sandy sea-shore. This 
minute species possesses all the chief characters of 
Crypticus. In one specimen the markings on the elytra 
are scarcely visible. ‘he genus has not hitherto been 
recorded from Australia. 
Hyocis. 
Hyocis, Pascoe, Journ. Ent., u., p. 457 (1866). 
The species of this genus live at the roots of maritime 
plants on sandy sea-beaches, according to Mr. Walker. 
Hyocis bakewelli. 
Hyocis bakewellii, Pasc., Journ. Ent. i., p. 457. 
Hab. W. Australia—Fremantle, Albany, EH. Wallaby 
J. in the Houtmann’s Abrolhos Group. 
Sent in plenty from both localities. Mr. Pascoe’s 
description was taken from a single specimen, and he 
gives the colour as “ dark ferruginous.”’ In most of the 
Fremantle specimens the elytra have a common, ir- 
regular, O- or U-shaped mark a little beyond the middle, 
and some spots before and behind it, black. Those from 
H. Wallaby I. are testaceous, the elytra usually with some 
small black spots.* The locality given by Mr. Pascoe is 
Victoria. ‘Two other species of the genus have been 
described by Macleay. 
Hyocis subparallela, n. sp. 
Oblong-oval, moderately convex, opaque; piceous or pitchy 
brown, sometimes with the sides of the head, the sides, base, and 
apex of the prothorax, and some ill-defined patches on the elytra, 
ferruginous ; the upper surface thickly clothed with yellowish- 
cinereous appressed scaly hairs ; the antennze and legs ferruginous, 
the apical joints of the antennz more or less piceous. Head densely, 
rugosely punctured ; antennz short, not Sees the base of the 
* Specimens similar to fee are labelled in Pascoe’s ese don 
HT, punctipennis, Pasc. ; but I am unable to find any published 
description of this insect, 
