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catus ; scutellum triangulare ; elytra late ovalia subdepressa, 
quam prothoracis basis ad basin vix latiora; prosternum inter 
coxas sat latum, postice truncatum vix productum ; meso- 
sternum transversum antice rotundato-truncatum ; abdominis 
segmentum basale quam cetera conjuncta v1x brevius ; pedes 
modici; tarsi subtetrameri, articulis basalibus 2 brevibus, 
apicali valde elongato; unguiculi simplices; corpus setis 
suberectis subtilibus minus elongatis sat crebre vestitum. 
This is a remarkable little insect, of facies decidedly aberrant 
in the Endomychide but certainly belonging to that family I 
think, by the structure of its mouth organs and its tarsi. It has 
a certain resemblance, on a casual glance, to the Z’rogositid genus 
Thymalus, though it is of much less convex form—and of course 
with no structural affinity thereto. 
E. punctulatus, sp. nov. Late ovalis; minus convexus; setis 
suberectis vestitus; brunneo-fulvus, capitis prothoracisque 
parte mediana elytris et (plus minusve) corpore subtus in- 
fuscatis ; capite prothoraceque distincte sat crebre, elytris 
dupliciter (sc. subtiliter et fortiter) minus crebre, punctu- 
latis; prothorace quam longiori plus quam duplo latiori ; 
elytris nec striatis nec seriatim punctulatis. Long., 1 1. ; 
lat., 3% 1. (vix). 
S. Australia; on a fungus on marshy ground near Port 
Adelaide. 
DYSCERASPHORUS (gen. nov.) 
Caput magnum, antice .parum elongatum; labrum minutum ; 
palporum maxillarium articulus ultimus elongato-ovalis ad 
apicem acuminatus, labialium lato transverso; antennz 
breves, quam corporis dimidium multo breviores, 6-articulatz 
(clava haud inclusa), articulo basali 2° sat sequali, 2° quam 
3°° paullo longiori, 3°-6° inter se sat equalibus, clava 
triangulari quam articuli ceteri conjuncti paullo breviori 
haud distincte articulato fortiter dilatato; oculi parvi 
grossissime granulati; prothorax fortiter transversus, 
equalis, antice angustatus et fortiter sinuatim emarginatus ; 
scutellum parvum; elytra subcuneiformia, epipleuris sub- 
horizontalibus antice latis; prosternum inter coxas sat 
angustum, postice paullo dilatatum et leviter productum, ad 
apicem truncatum ; mesosternum breve transversum, antice 
declive ; abdominis segmentum basale quam sequentia 3 
conjuncta vix longius; pedes modici; tarsi subtetrameri, 
articulis basalibus 2 inter se sat equalibus (ultimo quam 
basales 2 conjuncti subbreviori) ; unguiculi simplices ; cor- 
pus glabrum, convexum. 
This genus is a very isolated one in the Endomychide to which 
