146 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 

 239. PiEDERUS CINGULATDS. n. Sp. 



Length 3i lines. 

 This is evidently a distinct species from P. Australis Guer., 

 and P. cruenticolUs Germ., the only Australian species described. 

 I cannot, however, find any positive difference excepting in the 

 coloration of the abdomen. In the present species the third and 

 fourth segments are entii'ely red. 



240. — P^DERUS ANGULICOLLIS. n. sp. 



Length 2^: lines. 

 This insect is much smaller than the last. It may be readily 

 distinguished by the almost square thorax and by the four basal 

 segments of the abdomen being of a dull red. 



Sub -family PmoPHiLlD^. 



241. PlNOPHILUS GRANDICEPS. n. Sp. 



Length 7 lines. 

 Black, subnitid, closely punctured, and clothed vrith a soft 

 ashen pile. Head sparsely punctured in front, broad, slightly 

 convex, truncate behind, and affixed to the thorax by a thick but 

 very distinct neck. Thorax of the same width as the head in 

 front, scarcely longer than the breadth, and slightly narrowed 

 towards the posterior angles which are rounded. Elytra not so 

 broad as the thorax at its broadest part and very short. Abdo- 

 men elongate, somewhat flat, and becoming pointed at the apex. 

 The tarsi and antennge are reddish, the latter are of a very slight 

 form. The last joint of the maxillary palpi is large, pointed, and 

 directed inwards, but it scarcely answers to the description of the 

 genus given by Lacordaire. 



242. — PlNOPHILUS Mastersii. n. sp. 

 Length 6| lines. 

 This species may be readily distinguished from the last by 

 the much finer and denser puncturation over the whole body, and 



