276 On new SphcgiJje yVom Australia. 



before the apex, the apical margin subtruncate. IleaJ 

 broad, very delicately reticulate, eyes ci>nvergent towards 

 the vertex ; antenna; very short, the apical joints thickened. 

 Pronotum very ?hort, depressed below tlie mesonotum, which 

 is broad, ojiaque, and very delicately reticulate. Median 

 segment short, oblique, vertically truncate posteriorly, a 

 transverse depressed row ot coarse punctures at the base, 

 from which a similar longitudinal row runs down the middle 

 of the segment, the rest of the segment smooth. Abdomen 

 almost smooth, triangular, the first segment vertically trun- 

 cate anteriorly, the surtace of the truncation concave. 



Castaneous; the head black; the antenna and clypeus 

 castaneous ; the mandibles dark ferruginous, black at the 

 apex; the second to the fifth abdominal segments blackish 

 brown, the apical margin of the segments testaceous. Wings 

 hyaline, nervures fuscous. 



Length 7 mm. ; expanse of wings 13 mm. 



Ilah. Cairns, Queensland (April). 



Nearest to <9. bicolor, Sm., from the Swan River. 



Sericophorus funebris, sp. n. 



$ . Clypeus broad, much elevated in the centre, projecting 

 at the apex almost at ri.^ht angles. Head opaque, almost 

 smooth, the front above the clypeus depressed concaveiy, 

 clothed with silver pubescence ; a very short, longitudinal, 

 median carina above the base of the antennae. Pronotum 

 short, stronglv depressed ; mesonotum large, very delicately 

 reticulate. Median segment almost smooth, narrowed from 

 the base, truncate posteriorly, with a median carina from tlie 

 base continued on the surface of the truncation to the apex, 

 a small tubercle on each side of the carina just above the 

 truncation, the lateral margins of the segment raised at the 

 base, forming short carinas ; the sides of the segment 

 obliquely striate. Abdomen shining, very delicately punc- 

 tured, tlie apical margin of the segments smooth ; the first 

 segment is not truncate, and is narrower at the base and 

 longer than in the allied species. 



Black ; the mandibles yellow, an interrupted line on the 

 pronotum and the tegulje pale yellow ; the tibiae, tarsi, and 

 the apex of the femora testaceous. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 testaceous. 



Length 6 mm. ; expanse of wings 9 mm. 



Uab. Mackay, Queensland (November). 



