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The puncturation of its upper surface is scarcely traceable, 



though under a microscope each seta is seen to spring from a 



small puncture. 

 Tasmania. 



C. tierensis, sp. nov. Minus brevis, postice angustatus ; nitidus ; 

 supra l?evis ; niger, antennis (clava infuscata excepta) palpis 

 pedibusque testaceo-brunneis, marginibus lateralibus anguste 

 rufescentibus ; antennarum articulis 2" quam 3*^* baud multo 

 longiori, 4 ' o" que inter se sat tequalibus quam 3"^ manifeste 

 brevioribus, 6" brevi, 7" sat majori transverso, 8° quam 

 7"" multo majori (quam priecedentes 2 conjuncti vix 

 longiori) sat fortiter transverso, 9" subquadrato quam 8"** 

 vix breviori manifeste angustiori. Long., ^^^^ 1. 

 Easily distinguished from the preceding two species by its 



dark colour, non-punctulate upper surface, and absence of 



pubescence. 



Tasmania (The Tier, also sent by Mr. A. Simson). 



PHALACRID.^^:. 



LITOCRUS. 



L. plagiatus, sp. nov. Ovalis ; nitidus ; supra niger, capite 

 antice pronoti marginibus et in elytris macula magna com- 

 muni rulis ; subtus cum antennis palpis pedibusque testaceo- 

 brunneis ; antennarum articulis 3" quam 4''' dimidio longiori, 

 4° longiori quam latiori, 5" 4° £equali, 6° 7° que inter se 

 tequalibus quam o""' sat brevioribus, S'' 7" paullo longiori 

 haud transverso, 9" quam 8*"" multo majori leviter transverso, 

 10" quam 9"* breviori fortiter transverso, IP quam 9""' sat 

 longiori ; capite pronotoque subtilissime confertim punctulato, 

 hoc latera versus puncturis pauHo majoribus nonnullis impresso ; 

 pronoto fortiter transverso, stria laterali pone marginem 

 anticum iatus curva et marginem anticum oblique attin- 

 genti ; elytris seriatim (pro genere Litocro sat fortiter) 

 punctulatis, puncturis antice obsoletis, interstitiis crebrius 

 subtilissime (sed plane perspicue) punctulatis, alternis 

 sparsim seriatim puncturis majoribus (his puncturis serierum 

 lequalibus sed inter se multo magis distantibus) impressis ; 

 tarsis posticis sat robustis, articulo basali quam 2''- circiter 

 duplo longiori. Long., \l 1.; lat., y^j 1. 



This species I confused with L. maculatus, Blackb., when I 

 described that species, from which it differs in size (being con- 

 stantly larger), in the very evidently larger eighth joint and club 

 of its antennae, and in the shape of the common red spot on its 

 elytra (the front margin of which is triangularly concave, while 

 in maculatns it is triangularly convex). A specimen from Sydney 



