Australian and Tasmanian Malacoderinidac. 185 



joints of antennae, and four hind femora black or blackish. Middle 

 of lower surface of two basal segments of abdomen infuscate. 

 Clothed with long, straggling, griseous hairs. 



Head not very large, with several feeble impressions in front, and 

 a feeble slightly curved ridge between eyes. Antennae not extend- 

 ing to apex of elytra ; 3rd joint dentate, 4th- 10th pectinate, 11th 

 long and clubbed. Prothorax almost circular. Elytra with rather 

 large but shallow, indistinct and rather sparse punctures. Legs 

 moderately stout (for the genus) ; basal joint of front tarsi large and 

 thick, rounded, and with a black comb almost the entire length of 

 the inner margin. 



Length to apex of elytra 4, of abdomen 5| mm. 



Hah. N.W. Australia (type in Macleay Museum), 

 Derby ( W. W. Froggatt). 



The antennal rami of the male are shorter than in the 

 other species known to me, and are without the long hairs 

 so characteristic of most of the species. In colour to a 

 certain extent it resembles macleayi, but the head is 

 smaller, with much less prominent eyes, and in fact these 

 are not much larger than in mastersi, in which they are 

 least prominent of all. The front legs are (excluding the 

 comb) either entirely pallid or with the femora partly 

 infuscate ; the same is the case with the middle tibiae and 

 tarsi, whilst the hind tibiae are either pallid or black. On 

 one specimen there is an infuscate spot on the upper 

 surface of each of the median abdominal segments. 



A specimen in the Macleay Museum, which I presume 

 to be the female, has the apical two-thirds of the elytra 

 purplish-brown, its legs (except the hind femora and coxae) 

 are pallid, and antennae pallid at base, becoming darker 

 from the fourth joint, the 3rd-10th joints are strongly 

 serrate ; the prothorax is longer than wide, the sides 

 rounded and decreasing in width to base, the elytra are 

 wider with the sides at the basal third, suddenly widened 

 but thence parallel to apex ; whilst the eyes are even 

 larger. 



Balanophorus victoriensis, n. sp. 



(^ . Black; elytra violet-blue ; prothorax, muzzle, base of antennae 

 and front coxae reddish-fiavous. Clothed with long, straggling 

 griseous hairs. 



Head large ; with rather large and prominent eyes ; base in 

 middle irregularly punctate, at sides strigose ; with several feeble 



