178 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's Revision of the 



to be entirely dark. Owing apparently to irregular con- 

 traction due to their thinness the elytra occasionally 

 appear to be slightly rugulose, but no distinct punctures 

 are traceable. The sexes do not differ in the antennae 

 and legs. 



Hypattalus exilis, n. sp. {Fig. 153.) 



$ $ • Black with a slight bronzy gloss ; tip of elytra and a spot 

 on each side, coxae and trochanters pale flavous (almost white) ; 

 knees and parts of basal joints of antennae obscure flavous. 



Head with two distinct subapical fovae. Prothorax rather less 

 transverse than usual, and with a few subapical punctures. 

 Mytra thin, moderately densely and rather coarsely punctate 

 on the basal half (except at extreme base) and almost impunctate 

 elsewhere. Legs simple but thinner than usual. 



Length 2|-2| mm. 



Hob. Tasmania: George Town (Aitg. Simson), Mole 

 Creek, Ulverstone, Hobart {A. M. Lea). On blossoms of 



Bursaria spinosa. 



A very narrow species (narrower even than longicomis), 

 the colour alone rendering it very distinct from all 

 previously described species. The sexes (apart from a 

 slight difference at the apex of abdomen) are scarcely 

 distinguishable. The spot on each side of the elytra is 

 widest at the margin and subtriangularly narrowed 

 towards the suture and appears as a remnant of a median 

 fascia ; in one specimen each spot is obscurely connected 

 with the apex along both suture and side so that the 

 apical half appears pallid except for a large dark spot; 

 in several others the suture beyond the middle is 

 narrowly flavous. The pubescence is much sparser than 

 in any other species here recorded, the upper surface at 

 first sight being apparently glabrous, the antennae, though 

 long, appear comparatively short, owing to the length 

 of the elytra; they are but very feebly serrate internally, 

 the subapical foveae of the head occasionally become 

 united, when they appear as a moderately large shallow 

 punctate impression. The elytral punctures are remin- 

 iscent of those of many species of Cleridae. 



Hypattalus sordidus, n. sp. 



^ . Black ; elytra dark submetallic blue or green,- with or 

 without patches glossed with purple ; prothorax reddish flavous, 



