284 Records of the S.A. Museum 



PEDILOPHORUS CARINATICEPS sp. nov. 



Head and prothorax Ijlack. with a bronzy gloss ; elytra metallic-green, or 

 greenish-purple, under-surface, legs, antennae and palpi more or less reddish. 

 Upper-surface with long, thin, erect hairs, head and prothorax with rather 

 dense and more or less golden pubescence, becoming sparser on elytra ; the latter 

 in addition with blackish pubescence ; under-surface with very short pubescence. 



Head with dense, partially concealed punctures, and with a short medio- 

 basal carina. .Vntennae short, third joint thin, the others regularly increasing in 

 width, eighth-tenth each much wider than long, eleventh almost circular. 

 Prothorax strongly con\ex, much wider than long, sides greatly decreasing in 

 width from base: with small, crowded, partially concealed ])unctures. Elytra 

 at base the width of base of prothorax, slightly dilated to Ijcyond middle, and 

 then strongly narrowed to apex ; with crowded and small subasperate inmctures. 

 Under-surface with fairly dense punctures, larger on sterna than elsewhere. 

 Length, 2-2.^— 2 75 mm. 



Hah. Tasmania: W aratah. Cradle Mountain, in moss (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 L 10697. 



A beautiful, hairy species, associated with innltirolor on account of its 

 clothing, but the tw" species have little else in common. The golden clothing on 

 the elytra is distinct, but sparser than on the rest of the upper-surface : on each 

 elytron of the largest of three si)ecimens there are two short, oblique patches, 

 where the derm is shinier than elsewhere, but clothed with short lilack pubescence; 

 on the other specimens the patches' are less conspicuous ; on the largest specimen 

 also some of the clothing at the base of the prothorax is of a rusty-red. The 

 five apical joints of the antennae are flattened, so' that, with the exception of the 

 apical one, they appear to be much wider than long, but from other directions 

 the length and width are almost equal. From some directions the sides of the 

 prothorax ajjpear to l)e flanged at the base ; on each side of the under-surface 

 at the junction of the prosternum and elytra there is a cavity for the reception 

 of the antennal club when at rest; beyond tliis, and invisible from above, there is 

 a short semi-circular ])rolongation of the elytral e])ipleurae. 



PEDILOPHORUS MACULATIPES sp. nov. 



Testaceous-brown, some parts darker ; legs and antennae flavous, femora 

 and tibiae each with a dark median or sub-meilian spot. Under-surface with 

 very short pubescence, upper-surface glabrous. 



Head large, with fairly dense, sharply definecl punctiu-es of moderate size; 

 clypeal suture not traceable except at sides, .\ntennae moderatelv long, joints, 



