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llic scutelluiii is smaller, and the prothorax is shinier, with niucii smaller 

 [junctures. The tnhercles on each elytron are usually fourteen in nuniher. hut 

 occasionally thirteen or fifteen, the sutural mw usually consists of five tuhercles, 

 hut occasionally of six, o\vin<j to the division of the hasal one. < )n many 

 specimens there is a \ague remnant of a median line (jn the prothorax. The 

 hasal joint of the antennae has a greenish glo.ss, the second joint and the claws 

 are usually reddish. Some of the specimens were obtained by breaking up and 

 sieving moss in the ordinary way, hut others were taken on logs where the moss 

 !iad been pulled from off them. 



PEDILOPHORUS NODIPENNIS sp, nov. 



Colour and clothing much as in preceding species. 



Head and prothorax witli somewhat denser and stronger punctures, but 

 otherwise much as in preceding species. Hlytra shagreened. and with numerous 

 small asperate puncttires, with numerous convex, more or less rounded tubercles, 

 Lengtli, 6 mm. 



Hab. Tasmania: West Coast ( Simson's collection from T. Moore). Type 

 (unique), I. 10696 



( )n one elytron there are twenty-two tubercles, on the other twenty-three; 

 the sutural row on the left consists of eight tubercles, and nine on the right 

 ( counting the small ajjical one that belongs as much to the third row as to the 

 first). The type is the specimen that the late .K. Simson showed the late Rev. T. 

 Blackburn and mvself, and not ha\ing it for comparison when I described 

 PcdUophonts carissiiiiiis. and, judging from memory, presumed to be that species. 

 It differs, however, in ha\ing the elytra! tubercles raised almost as conspicuously 

 as in PcdUophonts ijcnunatits. but more numerous, although less numerous than 

 in Pcdilophorus cari.s-si)iiii.': ; the three species may lie thus distinguished: 



Pcdilophorus carissimits. Pedilophorits iiodipcuuis. Pcdilophorus gcinmutus. 



More than \hirty tuber- Between twenty and Less than twenty on each 



cles on each elytron. thirty on each elytron. elytron. 



Tubercles feebly elevat- .Strongly elevated and with feeble [junctures, 

 ed and with conspicu- 

 ous punctures. 



Punctures on shagreened [larts fairly coarse. Rather fine. 



Prothorax with dense and shari)lv defined punctures With much smaller and 



of moderate size, sparser punctures. 



