Of the liind body segments 1-4 are infuscate except a 

 narrow apical margin, five has only the base infuscate, six and 

 seven are entirely blackish. 



This insect will probably have to form a new genus. Unfor- 

 tunately I have only a single specimen which I am unwilling to 

 subject to the treatment necessary for describing its characters 

 with accuracy ; the following, however, is such information as 

 I can supply : — Facies of Bolitohius, maxillary palpi as in 

 Ilycefoporus ; antennas elongate, and thick, reaching to near the 

 middle of the elytra, none of the joints transverse ; tarsi five 

 jointed, all longer than their tibise (the posterior nearly twice 

 as long), the basal joint of all about equal in length to the 

 following two joints ; the discal series of punctures on each 

 elytron ends in a deep fovea, between which and the suture 

 there are faint indications of several more longitudinal fovesB ; 

 second segment of hind body not keeled beneath, albeit there 

 is a small somewhat triangular space at the base of that seg- 

 ment only discernible in certain lights which seems faintly ele- 

 vated above the surface of the segment ; prosternum very 

 strongly carinate ; intermediate and posterior coxae not at all 

 elevated above the surface of the meso and meta sterna. 



On flowers of Eucalyptus, near Port Lincoln. 



STAPHYLINID^. 

 ACTLOPHOEL^S. 



A. indigniis, sp. nov. Niger, antice nitidissimus, antennarum ar- 

 ticulo prime ad basin et pedibus fuscis, abdomine et 

 elytris opacis fusco pubescentibus, illo minus iridescente 

 segmentorum marginibus apicalibus dilutioribus ; capite 

 subovato, antice gradatim (basi ipsa fortiter subito) an- 

 gustato, inter oculos (et basin prope) binis puncturis 

 magnis, post oculos subtiliter crebre j)unctato ; prothorace 

 antice fortiter angustato, punctis 2 disco fere medic, 

 singulo prope angulos anticos notato ; elytris crebre for- 

 tius, abdomine fortius minus crebre, punctatis, illis 

 prothorace vix longioribus. Long., 5i mm. 

 This species appears to resemble A: asperatus, Fauv., but is 

 •entirely different in colour, with a different puncturation of the 

 head and thorax, and, if I am right in understanding M. 

 Pauvel to say that the elytra of his species are a third longer 

 "than together wide, with much shorter elytra. The contrast 

 hetween the brightly shining head and thorax of A. indignus, 

 and its opaque elytra and hind body is very noticeable. 



Near Adelaide, banks of the Torrens, presented by 3Ir. E. H. 

 Pulleine. 



HETEEOTHOPS. 



J5". taiirus, sp. nov. Nitidus, piceus, antennis, palpis, pedi- 



