398 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Tenebrionide. 
with very long, erect blackish hairs, those on the elytra serially 
arranged and arising from the interstitial punctures. Head im- 
pressed with oblong, rather coarse, scattered punctures, the 
epistoma separated from the front by an impressed line, the eyes 
strongly transverse; antennz pitchy-brown, hairy, extending a 
little beyond the base of the prothorax, thickening a little out- 
wardly, the joints perfoliate and submoniliform, 3—7 moderately 
elongate, 8—11 shorter, 11 stouter than 10; prothorax feebly 
transversely convex, strongly transverse, as broad as the elytra, 
widest at the middle, the sides greatly rounded, explanate, and 
abruptly notched immediately before the base, the entire surface 
with scattered, oblong, coarse setiferous punctures, between which 
are some very much finer and shallower non-setiferous impres- 
sions, the dise with traces of a smooth space down the middle ; 
elytra more than twice as long as the prothorax, ovate, parallel 
anteriorly, coarsely crenate-striate, the punctures becoming finer 
towards the apex, and not very closely placed, the interstices 
moderately convex, each with a row of scattered, fine, transverse, 
setiferous impressions, the base truncate, the humeri obtuse ; 
beneath pitchy-black, very shining, with widely scattered, rather 
coarse setiferous punctures ; legs piceous or brownish, hairy, with 
intermixed much longer erect hairs. 
¢ The anterior tibiz with the single spur at the inner apical angle 
longer and sharper, the anterior and intermediate pairs more 
curved ; the first ventral segment triangularly depressed in the 
middle behind. Length 7—8 mm. (¢ 9 ) 
Hab. N. W. Australia—Parry Harbour, Troughton I., 
Baudin I., Condillac I. 
Hasily known from the allied forms by its large size 
and the bluish colour of the upper surface. LH. scabri- 
pennis, I’. Bates, from Nicol Bay, is also a large species, 
but differs from it in many respects, apart from colour. 
Not rare, under large fragments of ironstone on the 
summits of Baudin and Condillac Islands (Walker). 
Hictyche erebea. 
ee erebea, Pasc., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), 
i, p. 144, t. 11, fies, 1; la, v: 
pe W. Australia—Fremantle. 
Originally described from the same locality. LH. sculp- 
turata, F. Bates, from Nicol Bay, approaches this species 
very closely. 
