384 Records of the S.A. Museum 



head with dense and fairly strong punctures ; with a feeble median line. 

 Eyes rather close together. Fro thorax rather more than twice as wide as the 

 median length, sides strongly rounded; with numerous small subaciculate punc- 

 tures, becoming dense on sides, where also the surface is shagreened. Elytra 

 scarcely as long as the basal width, sides gently rounded; with rows of small 

 punctures, becoming larger and set in distinct striae on the sides ; interstices 

 faint! V wrinkled (almost shagreenedj. J^cys rather stout, front ones slightly 

 longer than the hind ones. Length ( d $ ), 275-3 ^i^i- 



d Differs in being slightly more robust, club slightly thinner, front and hind 

 legs of equal length, and in the abdomen. 



Hab. Australia (old collection). Type, I.10961. 



A globular species in size and outlines almost exactly as in D. intousiis, but 

 the elytra glabrous ; the eyes are also closer together, those of the female of the 

 present species being the same distance apart as in the male of that species ; the 

 distance between them on the present species is about equal to the length of the 

 basal joint in the male, to the two basal joints in the female. Un the male (there 

 is one of each sex in the Museum ) the tarsi knees and almost the entire hind 

 femora are infuscated, on the female the pale parts are darker and the dark 

 parts are more extended, on the female also the prothorax has a slight purplish 

 gloss. On the male the pubescence of the pronotum is confined to the sides and 

 apex, on the female it is more extended, but each has probably been slightly 

 abraded. 



DITROPIDUS FLAVIPENNIS sp. nov. 



(S Bronzy; labruni. basal half of antennae, palpi, elytra (extreme base and 

 suture slightly infuscated) and legs flavous. Head, prothorax. under-surface and 

 legs, with white pubescence. 



Head with fairly dense and strong punctures, becoming stronger on clypeus ; 

 the latter with its posterior suture well-defined. Eyes widely separated. 

 Prothorax about twice as wide as the median length ; punctures of moderate size, 

 but not crowded. Elytra moderately long, slightly narrowed posteriorly; with 

 rows of distinct but not very large punctures, set in striae on the sides ; interstices 

 with minute punctures. Length, 2 75 mm. 



Hab. South Australia: Oodnadatta ( Blackburn's collection). Type (uniiiue). 

 L 4429. 



A subobl(3ng species with eyes separated fully the width of clypeus and 

 flavous elvtra. The scutellar lobe is scarcely visil)ly notched, but that would not 

 appear suftncient to refer the species to Bitcharis. The type is a male, as 

 although it I'as a subapical impression on the abdomen, it is shallow and not 



