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punctis setiferis seriatim instructis); tibiis anticis extus 

 dentibus 2 acutis parvis instructis et processu elongate aj)icali 

 productis. Long., 2 1. ; lat., -^^l. 



The surface sculpture of the head is complicated and very diffi- 

 cult to describe ; the most conspicuous prominence is a ridge which 

 runs down the middle, commencing quite indefinedly a little in 

 front of the level of the hind margin of the eyes and narrowing 

 forward (while becoming better defined) till it ends in quite a 

 sharp point about the level of the front of the eyes ; a longitu- 

 dinal furrow traverses the middle of this ridge. The uppermost 

 tooth on the external margin of the front tibiae is very small 

 indeed, being scarcely more than half as large as the lower one, 

 which itself is but small. 



As I do not possess a type of any of the previously described 

 Australian Dyschirii I must compare this species with a common 

 European species of the genus (J), thoracicus, Rossi). Apart from 

 the totally different colouring, it is a stouter-looking insect than 

 D. thoracicus, with longer mandibles, antennae scarcely so stout, 

 longitudinal channel of prothorax all but untraceable, elytra less 

 narrowed (and more abruptly declivous) at the base, with very 

 much stronger sculpture, the lower of the two external teeth on 

 the front tibiae somewhat smaller. 



D. Tor7'ense7isis seems to resemble D. zonatus, Putz. (from N. 

 Queensland), and to be extremely unlike D. Master si, MacL, and 

 D. Stephensi, Macl. Apart from ditferences of marking (which 

 may be variable), the present insect appears to differ from 

 D. zonatus, inter alia, in the front margin of the clypeus being 

 (not truncate, but) emarginate, in the elytra being (not depressed 

 "behind the scutellum, but) very evenly convex, and without a 

 humeral tooth, and in the front tibiae externally having (not two 

 .strong teeth, but) two rather exceptionally feeble teeth. 



S. A. ; banks of the Torrens near Woodville. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



PHYLLOTOCUS. 



P. dispar, sp. nov. 3" (?) Niger, subolivaceus ; hirtus ; antennis, 

 palpis, pedibus (tarsis exceptis), segmentis ventralibus, 

 pygidioque, flavis ; elytrorum disco livido-brunneo ; capite 

 confertim fortiter rugulose, prothorace ^hoc quam longiori 

 paullo latiori) sat crasse minus crebre, elytris (his leviter 

 striatis) subtilius subseriatim, pygidio (hoc ad apicem late 

 leviter impresso) antice fortiter sparsius postice crebre ob- 

 scure, corpore subtus sat fortiter (coxis posticis minus 

 elongatis laevigatis exceptis) punctulatis. Long., 34 1. ; 

 lat., If 1. 



