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Bou-Saada ; and T. tenuestriatus, Fairm., from Obock. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker, duriag the voyage o£ H.M.8. " Penguin," obtained four 

 species, all in numbers ; three of these (two from Australia and one 

 from Ceylon) are described below, the other, from Perim, being, no 

 doubt, referable to T. tenuestriatus, Fairm. All the species {T. aniso- 

 tomoides* excepted) live on sandy seashores, often under stones or 

 seaweed, at or immediately below high-water mark. They are closely 

 allied, differing chiefly inter se in the depth or puncturing of the 

 elytral striae, the ciliation of the margins of the prothorax and elytra, 

 and the sculpture of the under-surface. Judging from Mr. Walker's 

 experience, these insects must be very common on some parts of 

 the Australian coast, yet the genus is not mentioned by Pascoe in his 

 List of Australian Heteromera, published in 1866, nor in that of 

 Masters, 1886. 



Teachtscelis ciliaeis, n. sp. 

 Short-ovate, castaneous or pitchy-castaneous, shining, the antennae, under-side 

 and legs testaceous oi* fusco-testaceous ; the marginal cilise dense. Head and pro- 

 thorax impunctate, the latter obsoletely canaliculate in the middle behind ; elytra 

 very short, almost rounded at the sides, broadest at the middle, finely punctate- 

 striate, the inner strise well marked and at the base deeply impressed, the outer striae 

 (the ninth excepted) extremely faint, the punctures fine and closely placed, but 

 becoming much finer laterally, the interstices impunctate, somewhat convex on the 

 disc, perfectly flat at the sides ; beneath, including the epipleurae and propleurse, 

 densely punctured. Length, 2\ — 3^ mm. 



Hah. : W. AusTEALiA, E. Wallaby I. in the Houtmann's Abrolhos 

 Group, Fremantle, and Cape Leeuwin. 



Many specimens. Of more rotundate shape than T. apJiodioides, 

 the elytra being relatively shorter and more rounded at the sides ; 

 the punctures of the elytral striae finer, the inner striae more deeply 

 impressed at the base. The propleurse are coarsely punctured. 



Teachtscelis L.a;vis, n. sp. 

 Short-ovate, castaneous or pitchy-castaneous, very shining, the antennae, under- 

 side and legs testaceous or fusco-testaceous ; the marginal ciliae sparse. Head and 

 prothorax impunctate, the latter nearly three times as broad as long and with obtuse 

 but distinct hind angles ; elytra widest a little behind the middle, very finely and 

 lightly punctate-striate on the disc, the sixth, seventh and eighth striae obsolete or 

 barely indicated, the punctures of the inner striae closely placed and becoming more 

 distinct towards the suture, the marginal stria deep, impunctate, the interstices flat, 

 impunctate ; beneath, including the epipleurae and propleurse, sparsely and finely, 

 the middle of the venter densely, punctured. Length, 2^ — 3 mm. 



* This species is probably generically distinct. 



