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Extremely like the European H. rimdare, Payk, and colored 

 quite similarly. Placed beside //. rivulare, it is seen to differ as 

 follows : — The puncturation of its head pronotum and elytra is 

 considerably closer, that of the elytra is also different in character 

 (the punctures being much confused and run together by longi- 

 tudinal and oblique strigosity), the ventral segments are opaque 

 (being densely coriaceous and also covered with somewhat close 

 and even, but lightly impressed puncturation), and much more 

 closely clothed with fine golden hairs; the tarsi are very evidently 

 more slender, and the elytra are distinctly less elongate. 



S. Australia; taken near Adelaide by Mr. P. D. Morris. 



[PROTEINIDES.] 

 Of this sub-family of the Staphyli?iidce, which has not been 

 previously recorded as Australian, I have before me two Aus- 

 tralian species, for which it seems necessary to form a new genus 

 Lacordaire places in this tribe the genus Glyptoina, of which I 

 have described some species above ; Kraatz, however, places- the 

 L-itter among the Piestides on account of the form of its hind tro- 

 chanters, and I have adopted his reference, 



ANEPius (gen. nov. Froteininoruin). 

 Palpi maxillares modici, articuio ultimo fere filiformi, quam 

 penultimus multo longiori ; caput breve trans versum (ut 

 Megartliri) ; oculi sat magni parum prominuli ; ocelli nulli ; 

 antennae (ut FhlcBohii) elongat^e, 11 articulatas, articulis 

 basalibus 2 quam sequentes 5 robustioribus, 3^ — 7° elongati- 

 obconicis, 8^ — 11*^' vel. 9'"^ — 11° clavam laxam formantibus ; 

 prothorax transversus, fere ut Plilceohii conformatus ; elytra 

 abdominis basin tegentia ; abdomen breve, minus late 

 marginatum, postice angustatum; pedes modici ; tarsi breves, 

 inter se sat asquales, quam tibiarum dimidium breviores, 

 articulis basalibus 4 brevissimis subdilatatis (apicali quam 

 ceteri conjuncti vix breviori) ; corpus minus depressum, 

 grosse punctulatum, minus dense pubescens. 

 Having only a single specimen each of the insects for which I 

 propose this generic name, T am unable to state those of the 

 characters which would require dissection for their determina- 

 tion, and it is possible that I may have quoted as generic some 

 characters that the discovery of additional species may prove to 

 be merely specific. The essential characters distinguishing the 

 genus among the Proteinides (as diagnosed by Kraatz) are its 

 very short tarsi with basal four joints subdilated, and together 

 scarcely longer than the fifth joint, together with the absence of 

 a frontal ocellus, elongate antennas (like those of Phlceobium) and 

 a head resembling that of Megarthriis. In facies it resembles 

 Megarthrus. 



