New Species of Heteromera. 269 



the latter the appearance of being compressed. Body 

 beneathj shining black ; legs pitchy-blacky with the tarsi, 

 labrum, and palpi castaneous. 

 HaJj. — New South Wales. 



2. Dcedrosts amhigua, n. sp. (PI. XII. fig. 3). 



Length 5^ Hnes. Differs from the preceding in the 

 following particulars : — Of a deep glossy black, with the 

 elytra concolorous ; head with a large, irregular penta- 

 gonal depression above, its apex directed towards the 

 vertex ; thorax relatively broader, shorter, and more 

 square, less contracted behind, the lateral margins more 

 strongly crenulate ; scutellum larger, of a deeper and 

 glossier black ; elytra relatively broader, more ex- 

 panded behind the middle ; the interstices plain, not 

 transversely rugulose ; hind tibias straight; mesosternum 

 more declivous, and more concave in front; the inter- 

 coxal process more broadly rounded anteriorly : the abdo- 

 men of a deeper and glossier black, more sparingly punc- 

 tured, the first joint plain, not foveate ; legs deep glossy 

 black, with the tarsi, labrum, and palpi castaneous. 



Eah. — New South Wales. 



It is probable that this may ultimately prove to be but 

 the female of the preceding. I have seen but one 

 example of each, and the specimen of D. crenato-striatd, 

 wants the anterior tarsi. I have thought it best, how- 

 ever, at jDresent, to keep them distinct. 



Fam. CISTELIDiB. 



Gen. Otkelecta. 

 Pascoe, Journ. of Entom. ii. 488. 



Othelecta vestita, n. sp. 



? . Length 5| lines. Dark brown, shining ; clothed 

 with decumbent, cinereous, spinose hairs (apparently 

 somewhat abraded in the specimen before me) . Head 

 (save a line down the centre) and prothorax closely and 

 evenly covered with small rounded impressions, having 

 a somewhat cellulose appearance ; the latter convex, sub- 

 quadrate. Scutellum not convex, someAvhat pointed be- 

 hind ; a few large shallow impressions in front. Elytra 



