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Descriptions of a NK^^r Genus and Five 

 Species of Australian Nitidulid^e and 

 colydiid^e. 



By E. Grouvelle. 



[Read April 4, lS9;i] 



[This memoir is founded on certain species that I forwarded to 

 M. Grouvelle, the eminent French coleopterist, who has made a 

 special study of the group of families generally known as 

 Clavicornes. I was unable to refer them to any known genera, 

 but as many of the genera in this group of families are of very 

 wide distribution, I deemed it safer to place them in the hands 

 of a high authority, who is a specialist on the Claricornes of the 

 world, than to risk the possibility of my overlooking their connexion 

 with some existing genus of which I had not seen a type. 

 M. Grouvelle finds them all to be new species, and is able to refer 

 confidently to existing genera only three of them. I have at 

 least one examj^le of them all in my collection. M. Grouvelle 

 has taken the opportunity of this memoir to describe an addi- 

 tional new species from Australia in his own collection. — T. 

 Blackburn.] 



NITIDULID.E. 



ErICMODES* AUSTRALIS, 71. SJ). 



Oblongo elongatus, convexus, griseo-pubescens, fulvo-ferrugmeus, 

 antennis pedibusque dilutioribus, elytris nigro-maculatis ; 

 capite jDrothoraceque crebre punctatis, fronte convexiuscula ; 

 prothorace transverso, antice et postice coarcto ; lateribus 

 arcuatis, anguste marginatis ; angulis anticis rotund atis, 

 posticis obtusis ; margine antico arcuato, postico truncato; 

 basi utrinque prope angulos posticos foveolata ; elytris sub- 

 parallelis, ad apicem conjunctim rotundatis, prothorace vix 

 latioribus ; anguste marginatis, punctato-striatis ; stria 

 scutellari brevi ; intervallis planis. Long., 5 mill. 



Allonge oblong, convexe, convert d'une pubescence grise couchee, 

 plus dense sur les elytres, roux ferrugineuse, un peu enfume 

 varie cle petites taches noires sur les elytres. Antennes et joattes 

 plus claires. Tete transversale ; yeux gros, assez saillants, marge 

 anterieure tronquee, ponctuation serree. Articles 1 a 5 des 

 antennes plus longs que larges ; 6 a 8 moniliformes, 9 a 1 1 



:*' Ericmodes, Reit., Zool. Bot. Gesell, Wien, 1S77, p. 107. 



