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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 WITH Descriptions of NK^^r Genera and 

 Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. 



[Read October 6, 1891.] 



X. 



STAPHYLINID.^. 



SCOPiEUS. 



aS'. dubius, Blackb. The habitat of this species is the Alpine 

 regions of Victoria. 



PSELAPHIDiE. 



EU PINES. 



JS. relicta, sp. nov. Mas. Glabra ; niticla ; supra hvvis ; obscure 



picea, pedibus antennisque dilutioribus ; capite fere tequali; 



prothorace lequali leviter transverse, lateribus fortiter 



rotundatis pone medium subsinuatis ; elytris prothorace 



dimidio longioribus, Immeris callosis, striis suturalibus 



distinctis ; antennis capiti prothoracique conjunctis longi- 



tudine lequalibus, modice clavatis ; tibiis intermediis extus 



ante apicem late vix distincte emarginatis ; metasterno late 



profunde excavato; abdominis segmento ventrali 2° in medio 



breviter transversim carinato. Long., J 1. 



Of the antenme joints 1 and 2 are somewliat equal inter se^ 



both being longer and stouter than the following joints ; 3 and 4 



are subequal inter se, 5 stouter and longer (nearly equal to 2), 



6-8 a little shorter than 3 and 4 but not transverse, 9 of the same 



length but stouter, gently transverse; 10 a little longer and much 



stouter (rather strongly transverse), 11 twice as long, stouter, and 



of a darker color. 



Femina a mare diftert metasterno minus profunde excavato, 

 abdomine haud carinato. 

 The antennpe of the female differ from those of the male in the 

 fifth joint being smaller, and the ninth not wider than the eighth. 

 In my tabulation of certain species of Eujnnes {vide supra, 

 p. 86) the present species would fall lieside E. militaris, from 

 which it may be distinguished inter alia by its much less strongly 

 clavate antenme. From E. Victoria^, King, which is very insuf- 

 ficiently described, but perhaps resembles it, it differs by its 

 glabrous surface. 



