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This species seems distinct from the others of the genus and 
from B. testaceus and metallicus by its nearly black colour (which 
seems constant, as I have seen 7 or 8 examples). It is also dis- 
tinct by the sculpture of its elytra which are coriaceous rather 
than definedly punctulate, although from a certain point of view 
fine punctures can be seen mixed with a network of fine wrinkles ; 
the sculpture is altogether finer and feebler than on the elytra of 
the European species of Brachypterus known to me (e.g., gravidus, 
pubescens, urtice). The shape of the hind margin of the pro- 
pygidium, strongly bisinuate with the middle produced in a sharp 
angle (in one sex at any rate), also seems characteristic. 
S. Australia ; Port Lincoln district. 
NV. bifoveatus, sp. nov. Ovalis; vix perspicue pubescens; testaceus 
elytris indeterminate infuscatis; capite antice foveis 2 
transversim positis impresso prothoraceque distincte sub- 
fortiter sat crebre punctulatis; hoc fortiter transverso, 
antice minus angustato, angulis posticis rotundatis; elytris 
subtilius subsquamose vix crebre punctulatis. Long., 1 1.; 
lat., $ 1. (vix). 
This little species is distinguishable by the two well-defined and 
distinct round fovez placed transversely on the line dividing the 
clypeus from the hinder part of the head. From the species 
which I take to be possibly Lrachypterus testaceus, Bohem., and 
from JV. creber it also differs by the much more distinct and less 
crowded puncturation of its head and prothorax. It is very 
near JV. australis, Blackb., but differs by its smaller and narrower 
form, its different colour, the fovee on its head (which in 
NV. australis are replaced by a short transverse sulcus), the con- 
siderably more sparse puncturation of its head, and the evidently 
more quadrate form of its prothorax. 
S. Australia; near Adelaide. 
NV. nitidiusculus, sp. nov. Ovalis; tenuiter pubescens; niger; 
antennis palpis pedibusque rufo-testaceis; capite sat eequali, 
sat crebre minus profunde nec subtiliter punctulato (certo 
adespectu subconcentrice rugato); prothorace fere ut caput 
punctulato et (certo adspectu) confuse rugato, fortiter trans- 
verso, antice sat angustato, angulis posticis rotundatis; 
elytris sat crebre minus profunde nec subtiliter subsquamose 
punctulatis. lLong., 1 1.; lat., $1. (vix). 
Var. minor, supra brunnescens. 
A very nitid little species resembling J. creber in colouring, but 
ditfering from that species inter alia in its much feebler but less 
fine puncturation. From the other species described above it 
differs by the even surface of its head. From the insect 
mentioned above as possibly Jb. testacews, Boh., it ditfers enter alia 
