230 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



shining head, and the shallowly, but distinctly striate 

 elytra, the elytra themselves narrowed from the base. 



Australian Species. 



38. Macratria erythrocephala, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, shining, thickly clothed with rather 

 coarse, adpressed, cinereous pubescence; nigro-piceous, the head, the 

 basal and apical margins of the prothorax, and the base, humeri, 

 and suture of the elytra, ferruginous or rufo-testaceous, the mouth- 

 parts, antennae, and legs testaceous, the terminal antennal joint 

 slightly infuscate. Head broad, transverse, polished, very sparsely, 

 minutely punctulate, the eyes moderately large, the occipital 

 groove wanting; antennae short, slender, joints 9-11 thickened, 

 9 and 10 subtriangular, very little longer than broad, 11 acuminate- 

 ovate. Prothorax as wide as the head, slightly longer than broad, 

 margined at the base, the hind angles extending a little outwards ; 

 densely, rugulosely punctate. Elytra comparatively short, narrow- 

 ing from a little below the humeri, wider than the prothorax, trans- 

 versely depressed below the base; roughly, confusedly punctate, 

 obsoletely striate on the basal portion of the disc, the fine sutural and 

 submarginal striae present. Legs short, stout, the femora strongly 

 clavate. 



Length 2£ mm. ( J ?) 



Hab. Australia, Kew on the Yarra Kiver, Victoria 

 {H. J. Carter). 



One specimen. This minute form approaches the 

 Bornean M. pumilio and the Philippine M. parvula, differ- 

 ing from them in the rufo-testaceous, polished head, the 

 rougher puncturing of the prothorax and elytra, the rufous 

 base and suture of the latter, and the entirely pale legs. 

 M. banghaasi, Pic, from N.S. Wales, seems to be an allied 

 form. The example described was sent me by Mr. Carter 

 as M. australis, King (the type of which was from (lawler, 

 S. Australia), an insect said to resemble a Dircaea, and to 

 have indistinct olivaceous spots on the prothorax and elytra, 

 the legs and antennae castaneous, etc. 



39. Macratria macro phthalma, n. sp. 



cJ. Elongate, narrow, shining, thickly clothed with long, decum- 

 bent, brownish hairs, with a few erect hairs intermixed ; fuscous, the 

 palpi, mouth-parts, antennae, and legs (the slightly infuscate tibiae 



