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tremely shining surface and lighter colour of the elytra, the 

 puncturation is less noticeable unless examined under a powerful 

 magnifier. 



Victoria ; a single, example embedded in snow on one of the 

 higher mountains. 



LITOCHRUS (?) 



The next two species represent a type which can hardly stand 

 as truly congeneric with the preceding, as the tibia? are devoid of 

 apical spines, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi is shorter than 

 the second. It agrees with Litoclirus in having the hind tarsi 

 evidently longer than the intermediate, in its nietasternum pro- 

 duced to the extent of concealing the mesosternum, and in its 

 subglobular front (and adjacent hind) coxae, lirc, tfc-c. I should 

 have no hesitation in founding a new genus for it were it not 

 that I have not been able to consult the diagnoses of the new 

 American Phalacrid genera already referred to, and it is possible 

 that it may pertain to one of them. I find that in the species 

 before me, the clypeus is somewhat more developed than in the 

 preceding, encroaching somewhat on the labrum. 



L. (?) alpicofa, sp. nov. Nitidus ; subcuneiformis ; postice forti- 

 ter angustatus ; obscure rufo-testaceus, capite prothoraceque 

 subinfuscatis ; his leviter sat crebre punctulatis ; elytris vix 

 striatis, striis subtiliter perspicue (interstitiis subtilissime 

 seriatim) punctulatis. Long., 1 1. ; lat., f 1. 



The most distinctive specific character of this insect seems to 

 be its shape, the sides converging strongly in a curv^ed manner 

 hindward from close to the base of the elytra. The puncturation 

 of tlie head and prothorax is decidedly less line than in any of 

 tlie species of Litoclirus described above, but it is very faintly 

 impressed. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



X. (?) imiformis, sp. nov. Latus ; fere rotundus ; ferrugineus ; 

 subla^vis ; eiytrorum stria suturali postice manifeste im- 

 pressa. Long., a 1. ; lat., ^^^ 1- (^'i^)- 



The whole surface under a powerful Coddington lens shows 

 scarcely a trace of sculpture of any kind — merely the faintest 

 indication of very minute puncturation— except the sutural stria 

 of the elytra, which is moderately defined in the hinder two- 

 thirds of its length. In the example before me all the margins 

 (including the suture) of the elytra are narrowly and obscurely 

 infuscate. 



S. Australia ; near Adelaide. 



