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STAPHYLINIDA. 
QUEDIUS. 
Q. pictipennis, sp. nov. Sat robustus; sat nitidus ; niger, sub- 
iridescens, elytris externe rufo-marginatis et utrinque vitta 
obliqua rufa ab humero ad angulum suturalem producta 
ornatis, antennis piceis basi rufis, pedibus piceis; capite 
transverso, punctura magna utrinque in oculi margine et 3 
aliis postice instructo, oculis magnis; prothorace vix trans- 
verso, antrorsum a basi sat fortiter angustato, antice 
truncato, angulis posticis cum basi omnino rotundatis ; 
elytris quam prothorax vix longioribus. sat crebre minus 
fortiter punctulatis; abdomine in medio antice vix manifeste, 
postice et ad latera sparsim fortiter punctulato. Long., 31. 
The punctures on the prothorax are on either side as follows : 
—two close to the front margin, one in the lateral margin behind 
the middle, several on the base, one on the front part of the disc 
near the middle, and three arranged in a triangle also on the disc, 
but nearer to the lateral margin and the base. The antenne are 
moderately elongate, joint 1 the longest, 2 and 3 about equal in 
length (longer than the following joints), 7-10 gently transverse. 
In size and build resembles Q. ruficollis, Grav., but quite differ- 
ently coloured, with the elytra much more closely punctulate, the 
prothorax and abdomen very differently punctured, Wc. 
Victoria ; Dandenong Ranges; given to me by C. French, Esq. 
HYPEROMMA. 
The recent acquisition from Mr. French of an example (taken 
in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria) referable to this genus has 
enabled me to ascertain somewhat certainly that the examples 
referred to by me in Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1891, p. 70, as possibly 
fi. lacertinum, Fvl. are not that species. The specimen recently 
acquired is very distinct from those mentioned in my former 
paper, and agrees with the characters of H. lacertunwm much 
more satisfactorily than they do. Indeed I am not sure that the 
latter ought not to be regarded as forming a new generic type on 
account of their eyes very distinctly smaller and less entirely 
situated on the upper surface of the head (they are, however, 
much more so than in Scimbalium, Lathrobiwm, &c.), and the 
anterior tarsi of the male quite strongly dilated ; the prothorax 
too is much less strongly narrowed hindward. As however the 
eyes are distinctly nearer in position to those of Hyperomma 
than of Scimbalium, the elytra very small and narrow, and the 
insect apterous, I do not see any objection to leaving this species 
in Hyperomma with the remark that it has much the facies (and 
tends towards the characters) of Scimbaliwm. I characterize it 
below. 
