1028 COLEOPTERA 



space on each side of the former, behind the eyes, fusco-testaceous ; 

 elytra and hind-body variegate- brown ; legs, palpi, and the three 

 shining basal joints of the antennae testaceous, remaining joints 

 darker ; mandibles reddish. 



Head oviform, smooth, with two or three punctures near each 

 eye, two smaller ones near the base, and behind the eye, at each 

 side, there are large punctures and some shallow indefinite impres- 

 sions ; there are dark, elongate hairs arising from these punctures. 

 Antenna elongate, stout, gradually incrassated, first and third joints 

 nearly equal, elongate ; second longer than either fourth or fifth, 

 which are of equal length ; joints 6-10 much narrowed towards the 

 base; eleventh larger than tenth; the last eight joints bear blackish 

 hairs and appear somewhat asperate. Prothorax about as long as 

 broad, finely margined, apex truncate, sides but little curved ; with 

 two punctures in front, a row (transversal) of three or four before 

 the middle, and several smaller ones on the basal margin; it is 

 broader but not longer than the head, and bears hairs. Elytra 

 longer than thorax, and becoming broader than it behind, their 

 apices individually rounded, and almost truncated obliquely towards 

 the suture ; their punctation moderately close and distinct ; they are 

 clothed with short, yellowish hairs. Abdomen quite as long as or 

 longer than the rest of the body, apical segment largest, the penul- 

 timate larger than the basal ones ; more or less finely punctate, 

 sparingly clothed with fine yellowish hairs, and with longer blackish 

 ones on the sides and near the extremity. Legs robust, tibiae spinose 

 along the outer face, the posterior with a rather long spur ; anterior 

 tarsi strongly dilated, intermediate less so, the hind pair elongate. 



Altogether narrower than Q. variegatm, Fauvel, the thorax and 

 wing-cases longer, the head much narrower, eyes less prominent and 

 less obviously facetted, the terminal articulations of the antennae 

 more moniliform. In general outline it more nearly resembles 

 No. 210 (Quedius arctifrons). 



Length, 4-4-| lines ; breadth, |- line. 



My specimen is from Mount Arthur, and is one of many other 

 species that were found there by my friends T. F. Cheeseman and 

 J. Adams. 



1840. Q. antipodum, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Eoy. Dub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 378.) Major, latus, nigerrimus; clypeo membranaceo, 

 flavo ; prothorace amplo, elytris latiore. 



Long., 15-21mrn. 



AntenncB entirely black, rather stout, penultimate joint scarcely 

 so long as broad. Head short a*nd broad, with large yellow mem- 

 branous clypeus, to which is attached the large labrum ; this is 

 broadly emarginate in the middle, armed with very long black setae, 

 and increased by a large membranous border. An irregular series 

 of large punctures extends from front to back, along the inner mar- 

 gin of the eye, and there are some fine punctures on the side behind 

 the eye. Thorax more than one and a half times as broad as long, 

 with excessively broadly rounded hind angles, the front margin 



