Descriptions of Twenty Nkmsjt Species of 



South Australian Goleoptera. 



By Eev. T. Blackbuei^, B.A. 



[Eead December 7, 1886.] 



For some time past I have been occupied in examining and 

 describing a number of StapTiylinidce in my possession (cMefly 

 collected at Port Lincoln), whicb appear to be i\qv7. The issue 

 of the first part of a memoir entitled " A Eevision of the 

 StapTiylinidcB of Australia, by A. Sidney Olliff," has led me to 

 suppress for the present my descriptions of AleocTiaridcB (to 

 which that part of Mr. Olliff's memoir relates), as some of the 

 species I was intending to describe appear to be identical with 

 species described by that author. The Stapliylinidce treated of 

 in the following pages belong, therefore, to the tribes ii.-v. of 

 M. Lacordaire. I take the opportunity of this publication to 

 insert descriptions of two fine species of Tluryscaplius presented 

 to me about a year since by Professor Tate, of the Adelaide 

 University, which, the Professor informs me, were captured 

 at Ouldea, the larger and finer of which I have taken the 

 liberty of associating with his name. 



EuETscAPHrs Tatei, sp. nov. Niger, nitidus, capite inter 

 oculos foveis duabus profundis arcuatis instructo ; pro- 

 thorace minus lunulato ; elytris convexis, minus circulari- 

 bus, subseriatim punctatis ; utrinque in disco puncto valde 

 majore • tibiis anticis externe bideutatis, intermediis 

 dente acuto instructis. Long., 15 lin. ; lat., 6i lin. 

 The head is smooth (though somewhat lumpy in front), broad, 

 and flattish, with the usual two bent sulci, and (close within 

 the eyes) one or two large punctures. The thorax is about half 

 again as wide as long, considerably emarginate in front, its 

 sides not much rounded, its hinder angles quite rounded off, 

 and its base quite strongly lobed ; its surtace is transversely 

 wrinkled. On either side of the anterior portion, a little 

 within the angle, is a large well-defined shallow impression, 

 and the space between the two impressions along the anterior 

 portion of the thorax is closely set with distinct shallow punc- 

 tures. A well defined longitudinal channel occupies the disc 

 of the thorax, but is limited in front by the transverse punc- 

 tured space, and is intersected near its hinder extremity by a 

 strongly impressed transverse depression. 



The elytra, taken together, are a little longer than wide, 

 with the turned-up margin rather narrow, except at the 



