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 CRYPTOPHAGID.E. 



CRYPTOPHAGUS. 



C. Lindensis, sp. nov. Oblongo-ovalis ; sat convexus ; ferrugi- 

 neus ; pube fulva minus brevi vestitus ; prothorace trans- 

 verso, confertim sat fortiter rugulose fere confluenter punc- 

 tulato, supra a^quali (nihilominus trans basin clepresso), 

 lateribus ante medium leviter rotundato-dilatato ; anten- 

 narum clava 3-articulata, articulis minus fortiter transversis. 

 Long., 1 1. (vix); lat., -j% 1. 



This little species seems to l^e a true CryptopJiagus, and I cannot 

 identify it with any described species, though it is, I think, rather 

 close to C. jnihescens, Sturm., but inter alia it has no trace what- 

 ever of the angular dilatation which that species presents in the 

 middle of the latei^al margin of its prothorax. 



Compared with C. ajjinis, Sturm, (the only species of the genus 

 previously recorded as found in Australia), the present insect is 

 considerably smaller and narrower ; its puncturation is markedly 

 closer on the prothorax, and a little less close on the elytra ; the 

 sides of its prothorax are straight and parallel from the base to 

 beyond the middle, their front part having the lateral strongly 

 margined dilatation so characteristic of Cryptophagiis, but this is 

 not quite so strong as in C. aJJinis ; the antennae are not quite so 

 stout as in C. affinis, and their club is different, its joints being 

 about equal in width, the first and third only slightly transverse, 

 the second shorter than the other two, and moderately strongly 

 tr-ensverse, but much less strongly so than either the first or 

 second in C. aJJinis. 



S. Australia ; Port Lincoln district, under bark of Casuarina. 



ATOMAPJA. 



Although I cannot find that any Australian species of this 

 genus have been described, the genus is well represented in Aus- 

 tralia. The following are among the species in my collection : — • 

 A. a^isiralis, sp. nov. Ovalis ; convexa ; pubescens ; sat fortiter 

 sat crebre ^equaliter punctulata ; subtus nigra, supra ferru- 

 ginea ; elytris pone medium nigro-fasciatis, antennis pedibus 

 que rufescentibus ; prothorace trans verso subquadrato, basi 

 baud marginato, ante basin utrinque fovea profunda rotun- 

 data impresso ; antennis basi sat distantibus. Long., 1 1. ; 

 lat., f 1. 

 South Australia ; widely distributed. 

 A. Lindensis, sp. nov. Oblonga ^ sat convexa ; pubescens; rufo- 

 ferruginea, capite prothoraceque piceis ; minus fortiter punc- 

 tulata ; prothorace elytris sat angustiori, subquadrato, basi 

 baud marginato, ante basin utrinque fovea obsoleta rotundata 



