Singularly like the preceding in miniature ; differing from it 

 chiefly by its differently coloured legs and nitid subl?evigate head 

 and prothorax. It is to be noted, however, that in some examples 

 the femora are more or less infuscate. 



Victoria ; on the banks of the Ovens R. 



psp:laphid.e. 



CTENISTES. 



C. Andersonij sp. nov. Rufo-castaneus, elytris postice piceis ; 

 antemiis minus brevibus ; prothorace leviter tranverso 

 lateribus evidenter calloso, impressione basali intermedia 

 antice suljfurcata ; elytris prothorace dimidio longioribus. 

 Long., 1 1. ; lat., | 1. 

 The antenme are elongate, reaching back beyond the middle of 

 the elytra ; joints 1 and 2 short, slightly thicker than the follow- 

 ing ones ; 3-10 very slightly increasing in thickness. Of these, 



3 and 7 are longer than the others and equal to each other, 8 is 

 the shortest and is wider than long, 9 is scarcely longer than 8, 



4 is scarcely longer than 9, 5 about equal to 4, 6 a little shorter 

 than 7, 10 scarcely shorter than 7 [7 is quite twice as long as 8]; 

 the eleventh joint is as long as the jDreceding three together, and 

 is moderately dilated on one side from the base to l^eyond the 

 middle, and then narrows again to the apex. 



This species is evidently near C. impressus, Shp. (the largest 

 Australian ctenistes jDreviously described),^ but is considerably 

 larger. The antennal joints are very differently proportioned, 

 but not in such fashion as to suggest difference of sex ; and the 

 antennae are considerably longer I should judge (they certainly 

 could not well be called "rather short," as those of impressiis are). 

 The expression, " elytra distinctly longer than the thorax," ap- 

 plied to C. im'press'us, moreover, suggests shorter elytra than 

 those of C. Andersoni, especially in view of C. simplex, Slip., being 

 said to have elytra half again as long as its prothorax, and to be 

 distinguished from C. impressus by its proportionally shorter pro- 

 thorax. 



S. Australia ; taken by my friend, Mr. J. Anderson. 



BHYAXIS. 



B. Li7ide7isis, sp. nov. Nitida ; setis erectis sat crebre vestita ; 

 vix perspicue punctulata ; piceo-nigra ; pedibus piceis (tibiis 

 antice et tarsis omnibus pallidioribus), antennarum articulis 



■"" C. impressus is stated by its author to be smaller than C. vernalis. 

 King, but this seems to be a mistake, as the size given is H mm. = ,'y inch, 

 whereas C. rerualis. King, is given as ■% inch. The mistake no doubt arises 

 from Archdeacon King having in his original description of C. rona/ls set 

 down the size as 5^ inch, and afterwards (Tr. Eat. Soc, N.S.W., I., p. 102) 

 stated that this was a mistake. 



