382 Mr. J. S. Baly on new Genera 



Hob. Australia. 



Head clothed with adpressed white hairs, closely punctured, 

 lower face and clypeus rugose-punctate ; front longitudinally 

 concave, obliquely strigose on either side ; eyes remote ; jaws 

 nigro-piceous ; clypeus transverse, its anterior border concave- 

 emarginate, its upper margin subaugulate ; antennae nearly 

 half the length of the body, five upper joints dilated, black, 

 second to the sixth stained with piceous. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long ; sides rounded and converging from base to 

 apex ; basal margin faintly bisinuate on either side, median 

 lobe only moderately produced, obtusely angulate ; disk very 

 finely and remotely punctured, the punctures only visible under 

 a deep lens. Scutellum broadly ovate, its apex acute. Elytra 

 distinctly punctate-striate ; interspaces plane, two outer ones 

 subcostate. Body beneath stained with piceous. 



Ditropidus pictus. 



D. breviter subquadrato-ovatus, valde convexus, subtus niger, 

 nitidus, pedibus obscure cyaneo-metallicis, tibiis basi prothorace- 

 que rufo-piceis ; supra subuitidus, obscure cyaueus, viridi micans, 

 facie inforiore thoracisque limbo rufo-piceis ; antennis rufo- 

 piceis, extrorsum nigris ; tborace dense et fortiter aciculato- 

 punctato ; elytris distincte punctato-striatis, striis basi impressis, 

 striis quarta et septima apice coeuntibus, punctis piceis ; inter- 

 spatiis leviter transversim rugulosis ; obscure fulvis, fascia basali, 

 extrorsum abbreviata, postice irregulariter incisa, suturaque 

 angusta obscure viridi-cyaneis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hob. Western Australia. 



Head sparingly clothed with adpressed white hairs ; closely 

 punctured, longitudinally impressed on the vertex and front ; 

 clypeus not distinctly separated from the face, its anterior 

 margin concave-emarginate ; eyes widely separated ; antennse 

 with the five outer joints dilated, black. Thorax rather more 

 than twice as broad as long ; sides quickly converging and 

 slightly rounded from base to apex ; basal margin very 

 slightly bisinuate on either side, median lobe produced, nearly 

 rectangular ; upper surface closely covered with coarse acicu- 

 late punctures, interspaces on the sides thickened, reticulate- 

 strigose. 



Ditropidus antennartus, Suffr. MS. 



B. breviter ovatus, valde convexus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus, antennis 

 (basi excepta) nigris ; thorace teuuiter, sat remote punctato, 

 margine basali nigro ; elytris distincte punctato-striatis, striis 

 tertia et decima, quarta et septima, octavaque et nona apicibus 



