some Australian (JurculIoiiidEe. 403 



combined, a narrow basal portion on a level with the pre- 

 ceding segment, but elsewhere irregularly depressed. 



Length 10-13^ mm. 



? . Differs in being somewhat wider, aljdomen more con- 

 vex, and apical segment, convex in middle and depressed 

 j^osteriorly. 



Hah. New South Wales {Jus. Kershaw, Sr.), Sydney (G. 

 E. Bryant and H. W. Cox), Jenolan {A. M. Lea). 



The sculpture ot" the apical p.irts ot" the elytra should 

 prevent this species from being confused with any other 

 member of the family. On the type (and only) male before 

 me the scales are mostly of a sooty or rusty brown, but the 

 elytra are clothed with dirty whitish scales, except for a 

 subtriangular space on the basal third, some small median 

 spots, an abbreviated postraedian fascia, and most of the 

 posterior declivity, where the scales are of the general colour. 

 Each femur has also a pale ring. On the three females the 

 elytral clothing is much as elsewhere. From the sides the 

 head seems to be suddenly depressed below the base of the 

 rostium. On abrasion the prothoracic gr.mules are seen to 

 be covered with fairly large punctures. The base of each 

 elytron appears to have four small tubercles, of which the 

 outer one is really an abbreviated, oblique, humeral carina. 

 In the male the abdomen at fiist glance appears to be com- 

 posed of six segments, of which the fifth is much shorter 

 than the fourth ; but this appearance is due solely to the 

 wide and fairly deep depression that covers most of its 

 surface. In the female the base of the fifth is not con- 

 spicuously elevated, and its total length is somewhat shorter 

 than in the male. 



Aterpus foveipennis, sp. n. 



Dark reddish brown, some parts almost black. Head, 

 base of rostrum, under surface and legs densely clothed with 

 dingy, somewhat fawn-coloured scales, prothorax and elytra 

 rather densely clothed at sides, but more sparsely elsewhere. 

 With rather numerous setae on prothorax, rostrum, and 

 legs. 



Head without visible punctures. A narrow impression 

 encircling each eye. Rostrum stout, somewhat elevated in 

 middle. Antennae stout, first joint of funicle as long as 

 second and third combined, second as long as third and 

 fourth combined. Prothorax strongly convex, distinctly 

 longer than wide, produced in front, sides strongly rounded, 

 wider at apical third than elsewhere; \\'\l\\ dense hirge 



