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scutello la3vi ; elytris triseriatim punctulatis, prope ajDicem 

 haud seriebus additis impressis ; lamina prosternali postice 

 concava ; carina sternali postice sat acuta, vix pone coxas 

 posticas producta ; sterno breviter pubescenti. 

 Maris palporum maxillarium articulo penultimo apicem versus 

 intus leviter compresso-dilatato, paulio ante apicem subito 

 angulatim angustato ; tarsorum anticorum articulo apicali 

 subtus laminato-dilatato ; unguibus anticis modice robustis, 

 minus arcuatis, externo quam internus fere duplo longiori. 

 Feminae palpis tarsisque simplicibus. Long., 13 — 15 1.; lat., 



G—Q^ 1. 

 This species differs from the previously described Australian 

 Sydrophili as follows; from gayndahensis, Macl., by its very 

 much shorter sternal carina; from brevispina, Fairm., by the very 

 different front claws of the male, different colors, &c ; from 

 albipes, Cast., by the much less numerous rows of punctures on 

 its elytra near the apex, the differently shaped penultimate joint 

 ot the male palpi, the very much greater inequality of the front 

 claws of the male, the basal outline of the prothorax, the evi- 

 dently more rounded basal angles of the prothorax, &c.; from 

 latipalpus, Cast., by the much less numerous rows of punctures 

 on its elytra near the apex, the extremely different male characters, 

 the colors, &c. H. riiflconiis, Klug, is unknown to me in nature 

 and is insufficiently described by its author, but from Fairemaire's 

 remarks on it in the Journ, Mus. Godeff, p. SO, that species 

 evidently has a very much longer sternal carina and apparently 

 its prosternal lamina is not concave posteriorly. 

 Central Australia. 



H. gayndahensU^ Maci. This species is practically undescribed, 

 — the quasi-description merely stating that its sternal carina 

 passes the extremities of its hind femora, and that its palpi tarsi 

 and fringing hairs are reddish There is nothing in this to dis- 

 tinguish it from K. rujicornis, Klug. 



HISTERID^. 



CHLAMYDOPSIS. 



C. comata^ sp. nov. Nitida ; nigro-picea, antennis pedibus 

 elytrisque (his piceo-umbratis) castaneis ; capite grosse 

 granuloso-ruguloso ; prothorace trans verso, supra ad latera 

 late explanato et alte reflexo, haud punctulato, ante basin 

 utrinque longitudinaliter profunde strigato ; elytris Ifevibus, 

 humeris ut processus cornua magna simulantes (his ad 

 apicem penicillam pilorum aureorum valde elongatorum 

 ferentibus) productis, lateribus pone humeros ut crista 

 magnie (his antice penicillam ut humeri ferentibus) elevatis ; 

 propygidio pygidioque sat fortiter punctulatis; pedibus 

 minus elongatis Long., 1-|- 1.; lat., li I. 



