96 



feet are briglit red ; antennae sliglitly thickened, rather short, 

 the fourth joint a little transver.se, the following oney rather 

 strongly so, the eleventh ovate ; head and thorax striking, in 

 the male broader than the elytra in both directions, the former 

 very large, suborbiculate and convex, the latter transverse almost 

 semicircular, anteriorly abruptly truncated, the anterior angles 

 acute, sides parallel, base and posterior extremities rounded ; 

 head moreover punctured on each side scantily, but rather 

 deeply ; behind the eyes rather roughened by them ; on the 

 thorax they are scanty, only just visible, in female longer, 

 anteriorly rather narrow ; elytra small, slightly convex, a very 

 little shorter than thorax, transverse, sparsely but somewhat 

 deeply punctate, those of the abdomen (except the base of the 

 segments) are minute, rather dense and slightly rough, on the 

 sixth segment they are more scanty ; in the male the seventh 

 segment above the middle of the apex is finely margined, with 

 numerous bristles, which are short and very slender, as if the 

 part were ciliated. 



Length. — 4-4| mill. 



Locality. — Adelaide. 



5. Tribe PnL(i:ocnARixi. 



Section Phlceochari. 



Phloeocharis antipodum, Fauvel, II., p. 19. 



IS'early double the size of P. suhtili.ssima, much more 

 depressed, slightly alutaceous, subnitid, densely covered with 

 shorter pubescence, less opaque, head and thorax not at all 

 opaque ; reddish, back of the head and base of elytra dusky 

 tint ; mouth, antennre, and feet a reddish testaceous ; antennae 

 stouter, apex less thickened, the fourth and fiftli joints 

 quadrate, sixth to tenth slightly transverse ; head pretty 

 closely and finely punctured, those of the thorax often being 

 deeper ; the elytra, which are slightly scaly, having them 

 closely, and a very little finer, on the abdomen (which is not 

 alutaceous), they are very often somewhat deep, and in the 

 form of a netw^ork ; thorax much shorter, nearly twice as wide 

 as it is long, anteriorly and posteriorly alike a good deal 

 narrowed, about the posterior extremities slightly impressed, 

 the disc a little depressed, obsoletely grooved ; elytra parallel, 

 abruptly truncated at the apex, same width as tlioi-ax, but 

 ]iearly one-third longer ; abdomen a little more broadly mar- 

 gined, the apex not so narrow. 



Length. — 2.^-25 mill. 



Locality — Adelaide. 



