Coleopterous Familj Dermestidaj. 420 



wide and the lust not quite twice as long as wide. In the 

 lemale the bus:il joint is ns Ion«j as wide, the middle one 

 transvor.*c, and the hist half as lon^ again as it is wide. 

 The male is mueh smaller than tjje temale. 



Genus Tkogoderma. 



Trogoderma uiclusum, Loc, is apparently the common 

 European T. versicolor^ (.leutz., a cosmopolitan insect, al- 

 though not recognized as sucii in the catalogues. It is 

 evidently carried about by commerce, .specimens in the British 

 Museum having been found in rice and wheat in India. 



Tlie descriptions of Trcijoilerma [Etirh' piihis) ruhujinosus 

 and vctriegatusoi Solier (Gay's ' liistoriadi Chile,' iv. p. 373) 

 are transposed, as comparison with the figures shows. 



T. variipes, Blackb. (T. H. Soc. S. Austr. xii. 1892, |). 208), 

 is omitted trom the catalogue. The name variipes, Casey, is 

 a duplicate, and that of 



Trogoderma caseyi (nom. no v.) 



may be substituted for it. 



Trogoderma consors, sp. n. 



Atrum, antcnnis pedibus elytrorumque apicibus rnfescentibus, 

 eloiipato-ovale, undique a^qualiter griseo-pubescens, pronoto 

 fortiter annulato-punetato, subnitido, basi medio breviter ct late 

 lobato, utriiique obbque suloato ; scutello sat magno; elytris 

 dense granuloso-rugosis, apicibus separatim rotundatis, anteu- 

 narum clava .5-articulata, serrata. 



Long. 3-3*5 mm. 



fLd). N.W. Australia : Bathurst I. 



The extremities of the elytra are separately rounded, as in 

 T. occideniale, Blackb., but it is more elongate, less densely 

 graimlattd and oj)aque, the pronotum less pointed behind, 

 and the vi?il»le seutellum larger. It more resembles '1\ 

 cyreiise^ Blackb., but the apices of the elytra are not rounded 

 in that s[»ecies and the club of the antenna is narrower. The 

 oblique grooves extending liom each side of the base of the 

 pionutum arc scarcely visible iti either of Blackburn's species. 



Trogoderma peetinifer, ?p. n. 



Nigrum, opacnm, undique griseo-sefosum, pedibus, el) trorura apici- 

 bus, antennisque rufis ; ovatum, modice convex um, capite pro- 

 notoque deneissime punctato-rugosis, hoc valde convex©, lateribus 



