286 Records of the S.A. Museum 



A small species, with sparser clothing than on Pcdiluphorus raucus. 

 Pcdilophonts luidticolor, etc., but denser than on Pcdilophonis atrouitciis. It is 

 not very close to any ])reviously described species. The outlines form a perfect 

 oval. The pale parts of the prbthorax are conspicuous, but not sharply limited. 

 On the tvpe there is a medio-basal transxerse depression on the head, but as it is 

 not quite symmetrical it is probably due to accident. 



PEDILOPHORUS FASCICULATUS sp. nov. 



Black; j)arts of legs and nf antennae obscurely diluted with red. Upper- 

 surface densely but irregularly clothed, under-surface with short ]nibescence. 



Head wide, finer sculpture concealed. Antennae short, with a conspicuous 

 three-jointed club. Prothora.v widely transverse, sides flattened out, with 

 distinct but mostly concealed punctures. Elytra short, outlines continuous with 

 those of prothorax ; with rather numerous and, where not concealed by clothing, 

 sharijly-defined jjunctures; epii)leurae rather wide at base and suddenly ter- 

 minated at abdomen. i-Cijs short ; tibiae dilated from base to beyond middle, 

 and then obliquely narrowed to apex. Length, 2 mm. 



Hob. Tasmania: Strahan, in moss (A. AI. Lea). Type (unique), L 10700. 



The tibiae and clothing are at \ariance with other species of the genus, but 

 the type being unique and parts of the mouth not clearly visible, I have not 

 ventured to propose a new generic name for- it; with its head at rest the eyes, 

 mouth-parts and antennae are quite concealed ; it is a male, as it has a protruding 

 aedeagus. The clothing of the under-surface is ashen, of the upper-surface of 

 a dingy rusty-brown; on the head it is fairly dense, on the prothorax dense, but 

 condensed into four loose fascicles across the middle, and two at apex; on the 

 elytra there are numerous rather long erect hairs ; about the base there are four 

 loose fascicles, and elsewhere the clothing is rather short and sparse. Each side 

 of the presternum and base of the elytral epipleurae is excavated for the recep- 

 tion of the antennae ; the intercoxal process of the prosternum is wide in front 

 and acutely triangular where it rests in the mesosternal notch. The punctures of 

 the under-surface are rather coarse but mostly concealed. 



PEDILOPHORUS VIRIDINITENS sp. nov. 



Firight metallic-green; under-surface of a dingy red, legs, antennae and 

 palpi paler. Under-surface with \ery short and sparse pubescence, upper- 

 surface glabrous. 



Head wide, with fairly coarse punctures in front, becoming smaller at base. 

 Antennae short, three or four apical joints forming a loose club. Prothora.v 

 strongly convex, scarcely twice as wide as the median length, sides very finely 



