202 MR. À. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
tures are coarse, transverse, and rugose. The abdomen above is black, or nigro-piceous, 
with testaceous pubescence on the penultimate segment, in B. basalis; in B. binotatus 
the margins of the segments in all, and frequently the segments themselves, are slightly 
rufescent, especially the middle of the penultimate segment; and in B. blandus the 
abdomen is ferrugineo-piceous, with the whole of the antepenultimate segment orange- 
coloured and the middle of the penultimate segment rufous. 
5. BRACHYPEPLUS MacLeayit. 
Oblongus, modice latus, subparallelus, postice paululum latior, leviter crebre Fig. 50. 
punctatus, subtiliter pubescens, lateribus dense testaceo ciliatis, elytris C) 
levissime striatis; piceo-niger, ore, thoracis lateribus, elytris versus basin 
pedibusque piceo-rufis; subtus ferrugineo-piceus. Long. 2} lin., lat. § lin. 
Habitat in Australia. 
Oblong, subparallel, moderately broad, a little broadest behind, very finely and very 
thickly punctate (the punctures minute points), finely and shortly pubescent, the pubes- - 
cence of the colour of the parts where it is present; nigro-piceous, with the mouth, 
antennz, sides of the thorax, the basal margin of the elytra, and the legs piceo-rufous ; 
sides densely ciliated. Head bifoveolate in front. Thorax broader than long, but not so 
transverse as in most of the other species, apex emarginate, anterior angles slightly pro- 
jecting and rounded; sides narrowest in front, gently rounded, widest in the middle, 
margined, expanded within the margin, more especially towards the posterior angles, 
which are nearly right angles but somewhat acute and looking slightly backwards; the 
base slightly bisinuate: the fringe of hairs along the sides well developed, stiff, testaceous. 
Scutellum rounded. Elytra nigro-piceous, slightly rufous at the very base, not broader 
than the thorax, most faintly striate, the striæ not punctate themselves, but in certain 
lights having the appearance of being punctate from the general fine semirugose punc- 
tuation of the surface of the elytra; there is a longitudinal depression on each side of 
the suture immediately behind the scutellum ; sides sharply declinate, more particularly 
in front, strongly margined, and densely fringed with testaceous hairs; apex truncate, 
nearly straight; external apical angles rounded, sutural apical angles right angles. Ab- 
domen above somewhat convex in the middle; fimbrie as broad behind as before, 
eurved, united by a narrow dorsal ring concealed from view by the preceding segments; 
under side ferrugineo-piceous. Legs rufous. 
The fringe of hairs along the sides is stronger and longer in this species than in 
B. basalis and B. planus, but not so much so as in B. auritus. 
From Australia (Sydney), &c. I have received a single specimen from Mr. Sharp 
MacLeay. 
6. BRACHYPEPLUS PLANUS. 
Erichs. in Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg. Jahrg. viii. Bd. 1. 149. 53 (1842). 
Elongato-oblongus, niger, opacus, antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis; scutello Fig- 5L 
semicireulari; elytris subtiliter striatis. Long. 23-3 lin., lat. 4 lin. 
Habitat in Tasmania. 1ش‎ 
