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Soutli Australian Museum from the Finnis Eiver, wliicli seem 

 to have tlie elytra a little more finel}' punctured, but do not 

 differ otherwise. 



B. errans, sp. no v. Nigro-piceum ; plus minusve senescens ; sat 

 elongatum; minus nitidum ; antennis palpis pedibusque 

 sordide testaceis ; elvtris plus minusve testaceo-maculatis ; 

 antennis capite prothoraceque conjunctis sat longioribus ; 

 protborace fortius transverso, baud cordate, subtiliter 

 canaliculato, postice quam antice vix angustiori, postice 

 marginem juxta utrinque foveolato, lateribus fortiter ro- 

 tundatis ; angulis posticis minutis, subrectis ; elytris 

 leviter striatis, striis sat subtiliter puncturatis marginem 

 apicemque versus deficientibus, interstitio tertio bi-im- 

 presso. Long., 5 mm. 

 This species is very difficult to place among the named sub- 

 genera of JBemhidium. It has very much the general appearance 

 of a Leja (the European Bruxellense, Wessmael, for instance) 

 with a thorax much of the Lojylia type (though not at all cor- 

 date), with the basal corners not at all explanate, and the basal 

 fovea not separated by a keel from the lateral margin. The 

 elytra vary a good deal in colour and marking, being in some 

 specimens almost entirely of a dirty testaceous hue, and in 

 others blackish, or almost green, with the shoulders and ex- 

 ternal apical portion, or even the latter only, suffused or 

 spotted with testaceous. The sculpture of the elytra is very 

 similar to that of B. Bruxellense^ with the striae a little finer 

 and more finely punctured. 



Eather a common species and widely distributed in South 

 Australia, possibly occurring only near the coast. I have the 

 following localities noted for it : — Adelaide, Port Lincoln, 

 Mouth of the Murray. 



B. ocellatum, sp. nov. -3Eneum ; sat nitidum ; minus elongatum ; 

 antennis (apice infuscato excepto) mandibulis pedibusque 

 testaceis, elytris, apicem versus testaceo-maculatis ; an- 

 tennis capite prothoraceque conjunctis longioribus ; oculis 

 permagnis ; prothorace fortiter transverso hand cordato, 

 postice quam antice hand angustiori, subtiliter canalicu- 

 lato, utrinque angulos posticos subrectos versus foveolato, 

 margiuibus lateralibus sat fortiter rotundatis postice sat 

 deplanatis ; elytris striatis, striis subtiliter puncturatis 

 marginem apicemque versus deficientibus, interstitio tertio 

 bi-impresso. Long., 3^-4 mm. 

 This little species would not be much out of place in the sub- 

 genus P/z^'/oc/zf/^z^s; compared with the European species it is 

 ' not so convex, has much larger and more prominent eyes, and 

 the thorax is proportionally larger, and especially wider. Com- 



