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A7ery much coarser and closer than in the male of 0. tvcUtse7isis, 

 — this ditierence being especially conspicuous on the portion 

 behind the eye where in tuattsensis the surface is very nitid and 

 has only a few very fine punctures (intervals among the punc- 

 tures four or five times as large as a puncture) while in the 

 present species the punctures are much larger and closer. The 

 antennge of wattsensis are a little more strongly clavate than 

 those of Jiavior, both resembling the antennae of 0. melas, Fvl., 

 and being much more strongly clavate than in most European 

 Oxyteli (e.g., sculptiLratiis, Grav.). 



Victoria (Dividing Range and Australian Alps). 

 parumpunctcUus, sp. no v. Fem. sat robustus ; sat nitidus ; 

 niger, elytris mandibulis pedibusque rufis, remoribus plus 

 minus ve infuscatis ; capite quam prothorax sat angustiori, 

 antice depresso fortiter crebrius (postice magis subtiliter 

 magis sparsim) punctulato, haud striolato ; oculis sat 

 magnis, minus convexis, minus fortiter granulatis ; antennis 

 modicis, modice clavatis, articulis 5^ — 10° transversis ; 

 prothorace quam longiori sat latiori, fere ut capitis pars 

 postica punctulato, obsolete 3 — sulcato et latera versus late 

 minus leviter impresso ; elytris fortiter transversis, quam 

 prothorax parum longioribus modice latioribus, fere ut 

 prothorax (sed paullo magis fortiter, obsolete striolatim) 

 punctulatis ; abdomine sat nitido sparsim subtilius punctu- 

 lato. Long., 2 1. (vix). 

 The strong sparse even punctu ration of the elytra, with 

 scarcely any trace of striolation distinguishes this species from 

 its previously described Australian congeners. Its eyes are 

 moderately large, but notably smaller (and less strongly granu- 

 late) than those of 0. scidjjtus, Grav. Its antennae are much 

 shorter than in that species and are rather strongly clavate, but 

 somewhat less strongly than in 0. melas, Fvl. Its pronotum is 

 not laterally bicarinate as are those of so many of the Australian 

 Oxyteli. In this it agrees with the insect that I take to be 

 0. vulneratus, Fvl., which seems to be its nearest ally, and from 

 which it differs inter alia by the still feebler sulcation of its 

 pronotum as well as by the more nitid surface of its abdomen, 

 and especially by the much more sparse puncturation of its 

 elytra. 



Victoria ; in the Alpine district. 



[PIESTIDES.] 



GLYPTOMA. 



I am able to report the occurrence in Australia of two 

 species of this genus, which has not hitherto been recorded as 

 Australian. It can be at once distinsuished from the others of 



