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laticri, fere ut caput punctulato et quaui hoc vix latiori ; 

 disco obsolete inaBquali, latitudine majori ante medium sita, 

 lateribus arcuatis postice subsinuatis, angulis posticis 

 obiusits bene definitis ; elytris quam prothorax fere duplo 

 longioribus vix latioribus minus fortiter magis crebre punc- 

 tulatis ; abdomine subopaco, creberrime subtilissime punc- 

 tulato. Long, 14 L; lat., i 1. 

 The large head of this species, — about the same size as the 

 prothorax, — gives it a facies that suggests the thought of 

 Phlceohiuin clypeahim, Er.; it seems however to be a true 

 Homalium, presenting the characters Lacordaire attributes to 

 the Tribe Homalides and agreeing with Homalinm generically in 

 its comparatively long elytra, its unarmed mandibles and its 

 hind tarsi with their basal four joints short, equal and simple. 

 The irregularities of the disc of the prothorax consist in its being 

 flattened, the flattened space being bounded on either side by a 

 space (extending nearly to the lateral margin) which separately 

 is feebly convex ; in this convex portion there is a feeble rounded 

 impression near the lateral margin. 1 have a Homalium in my 

 collection taken on the Victorian mountains which diflers from 

 the unique example described above in being smaller (long., 14 1.), 

 its general color darker (ferruginous hrown rather than vpA), its 

 head notably smaller as compared with the prothorax and*its 

 prothorax smaller as compared with the elytra. I cannot specify 

 any other diflerence between the two and am disposed to think 

 them male and female of one species with sexual characters more 

 or less analogous to those of A^ithojihagus, 



Tasmania. 

 H. Morrisi, sp. nov. Modice latum ; minus parallelum ; minu- 

 depressum ; piceum, antennis basi palpis pedibusque dilutis 

 oribus, prothoracis lateribus elytrorum lateribus (pr?esertim 

 a.d humeros) et abdominis lateribus apiceque plus minusve 

 dilutioribus ; capite modico crebre punctulato, utrinque ante 

 ocellos longitudinaliter late sulcato (sulcis ad apicem con- 

 tinuis sed ad partem mediam subobsoletis) ; antennis modicis, 

 articulis basali sat elongato 2'^ sat brevi 3° quam 2'''' pauUo 

 longiori 4° 5° que inter se sat ?equalibus quam 2""^ paullo 

 brevioribus 6° — 10° longitudine inter se sat sequalibus sed 

 gradatim latioribus IP manifeste longiori; prothorace sat 

 transverso, quam caput paullo minus crebre punctulato, in 

 disco foveis ovatis 2 impresso, lateribus sat late deplanatis, 

 angulis posticis rectis ; elytris quam prothorax fere duplo 

 longioribus, crebre subrugulose strigosc - punctulatis ; 

 abdomine supra creberrime subtilissime punctulato, subtus 

 coriaceo opaco et crebre leviter sequaliter punctulato, minus 

 sparsim aureo-pubescenti. Long., li — 1-} 1.; lat., f 1. 



