and Species of CoJcoptera. 27 



miniaceons, an anterior triangular spot and sides black ; scu- 

 tellnm rounded behind ; elytra nearly four times as long as 

 broad and rather narrower than the prothorax, miniaceous 

 (except the apical third) , each with five raised lines, the inter- 

 vals gently concave ; body beneath and legs dull black ; 

 intermediate and posterior tarsi longer than their tiblte. 



This handsome species is covered with a dense silky pile ; 

 H. formosus, de Bon v., the nearest ally of the few described 

 species, has flabellate antennas (perhaps a sexual character), 

 a more transverse prothorax, and the elytra violet-black, 

 except at the (reddish) base. 



DOTICUS. 



Rostrum breve, transversum ; antenna' infra oculos inserta?, brevi- 

 uscula?, articulis diiobus basalibus incrassatis, tertio ad sexium 

 teunibus, gradatim brevioribus, tribus iiltimis clavam forraantibus. 

 OciiU rotuudati. Prothorax transversus, postice latior, carina 

 basali ad latera abbreviata. Ehjtra brevia, basi elevata. Pedes 

 antici elongati ; tarsi articulis duobus basalibus dilatatis, tertio 

 perbrevi, profunde bilobo ; j^edes intermedii at postici brevius- 

 culi ; coxce auticce fere contigua?. 



Allied to Arceocerus, in all the characters of which it nearly 

 agrees ; but the remarkable length of the anterior legs with 

 the broad basal and second joints of their tarsi, and the third 

 joint very short and deeply embayed in the second, forbid its 

 location in that genus. 



Doticus jyolmaris. 



D. breviusculus, fuscus, squamulis piliformibus griseis tectus ; elytris 

 basi nodosis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. Queensland (Wide Bay). 



Rather short, dark brown, covered with greyish hair-like 

 scales ; head flattish between the eyes, slightly convex behind ; 

 eyes close to the prothorax ; antennse not longer than the 

 head and prothorax together, testaceous, the last three joints 

 blackish, except at the base ; prothorax nearly twice as broad 

 at the base as at the apex ; elytra as broad as the prothorax 

 at the base, narrowing slightly towards the apex, which is 

 somewhat obtuse, striate, the alternate interstices sliglitly 

 raised, the second and third forming together a well-marked 

 elevation at the base ; third and fourth abdominal segments 

 narrowed in the middle. 



Apostetiius. 



Cujnd transversum ; clypeus apice rotundatus, a capite discrctus ; 

 lahnnn quadratuni, productum ; antenna' apicem versus crassiores, 



