Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. 179 



widely and deeply stained with black on the sides, and occasionally 

 narrowly stained at base and apex ; parts of basal joints of antennae 

 and the knees more or less obscurely diluted with red. Sides 

 rather densely clothed with long dark pubescence ; elsewhere with 

 short sparse pubescence. • 



Head densely and coarsely punctate, with a shallow subfoveate 

 impression on each side of apex. Antennae short, 4th-10th joints 

 strongly serrated. Prothorax twice as wide as long, apex 

 truncate, base obscurely bilobed, sides strongly rounded ; densely 

 and moderately coarsely punctate, but punctures coarse on sides. 

 Elytra wide, slightly dilated posteriorly, each separately rounded 

 at apex, densely and rather coarsely punctate, the punctures larger 

 than disc of prothorax but smaller than on head. Penultimate 

 segment of abdomen slightly incurved at apex ; apical segment 

 deeply and narrowly excised. Legs comparatively short ; femora 

 simple, hind tibiae very feebly curved. 



Length 3^-5 mm. 



5 . Differs in being larger and wider, antennae shorter and less 

 strongly serrate, abdomen frequently partially uncovered and legs 

 rather shorter. 



Hah. N. S. Wales: Armidale {A. M. Lea); Victoria : 

 Ferashaw (National Museum) ; S. Australia (Macleay 

 Museum) ; Tasmania : Hobart {H. H. D. Griffith and 

 A. M. Lea), Launceston {Aug. Simson, No. 2625). 



A large broad species of wide distribution, but ap- 

 parently never common. In the female the abdomen is 

 frequently inflated so that then it does not appear to 

 belong to Hypattahts, but to approach the genera with 

 short elytra {Carphurus, etc.), but the males (except as 

 to the colour and punctures of the prothorax, look quite 

 ordinary specimens of Hypattalus. 



Hypattalus montanus, n. sp. ' 



$ . Black ; shoulders, parts of basal joints of antennae, trochanters 

 and extreme base and apex of tibiae more or less red. Clothed with 

 sparse greyish pubescence, becoming longer on the side but still 

 sparse. 



Head rather large and strongly convex, with irregular scattereii 

 punctures. Eyes small, coarsely faceted and very prominent. 

 Antennae long (extending to about one-fourth from apex of 

 elytra) the five terminal joints fully half of their total length, 

 the 3rd-7th rather distinctly serrate. Prothorax not twice as 



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