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each being much stouter, but not much longer than joint 3 ; 

 joints 3-8 scarcely differ in thickness, except that 5 is very 

 slightly stouter than 4 and 6 ; 4, 6, 7, and 8 are about equal in 

 length inter se, and are slightly shorter than 3 and 5, which also 

 are about equal inter se ; 9 is scarcely longer than 8, but is 

 stouter; 10 is very little longer, but a good deal wider, being- 

 transverse ; 1 1 is about the same length as the preceding two to- 

 gether, and is still stouter than 10. 



This species appears to me to stand near B. hrevis, Schauf.,^ 

 which M. Raffray has formed into a new genus or subgenus, 

 under the name Schaufussia. Although it comes very near Herr 

 Schaufuss' description of the species, it does not present the cha- 

 racter in the palpi on which Scliaufussia is founded, and it differs 

 from Herr Schaufuss' description in having the prothorax laevi- 

 gate. I think its small size, short elytra, prothorax with three 

 unconnected basal fove?e and curiously sculptured basal segment 

 of the hind body are characters that in combination will suffice 

 for identification. I do not find any characters decidedly deter- 

 mining the sex of the two examples before me. 



S. Australia ; in moss near Port Lincoln. 



B. Ovensensis, sp. nov. Nitida ; angusta ; sparsim hirsuta ; fer- 



ruginea ; capite abdomineque vix infuscatis ; antennis 



elongatis sat gracilibus ; capite elongato la^vi, inter antennas 



insequali inter oculos 3-foveolato, foveola intermedia parva; 



prothorace vix transverso vix cordato, trans basin 3-foveolato 



(fovea media minus perspicua), foveis linea forti sulciformi 



conjunctis ; elytris prothorace dimidio longioribus sparsim 



obscure punctulatis, antice fortiter angustatis, striis suturali 



et discoidali profunde impressis, abdomine ut elytra obscure 



punctulato. 



Maris abdominis segmentis ventralibus in medio planatis ; 



tibiis posticis apice valde introrsum curvatis. Long., 1} 1. ; 



lat., -1 1. 



The antennre are distinctly longer than the head and prothorax 



together, and none of the joints are transverse ; joints 1 and 2 



are a little stouter than the following ones (1 a little stouter than 



and nearly twice as long as 2), 3-7 a little longer than 2 and 



subequal inter se, 9 very like 2 and slightly larger than 8, 10 



about as long as 3, but much wider (almost transverse), 11 fully 



as long as 9 and 10 together, and evidently wider than 10 ; 



joints 1-7 (except, perhaps, 2) are all much longer than wide. 



This species is very near B. strigicoUis, Westw., structurally, 

 but its facies is very different (form narrower and more 

 elongate, antenna longer and more slender, kc). It seems to be 

 also near B. hortensis, King, hinatica, King, and electrica, 



