196* 



also interrupted at the suture ; on the National Park specimen 

 the paler markings are more extended, leaving darker parts 

 as follows : a blotch about scutellum, a well-defined median 

 fascia, and a less sharply-defined subapical one. There are 

 four males under examination. 



Xylophilus rufohumeralis, n. sp. 



Black; shoulders, antennae (club excepted), palpi, and 

 legs more or less reddish. With very short, ashen pubescence. 



Head almost impunctate. Eyes large, prominent, not 

 very close together, and lightly notched. Antennae thin and 

 moderately long, second joint subglobular, slightly shorter 

 than second, eleventh almost as long as ninth and tenth 

 combined, apex pointed. Prothorax moderately transverse, 

 sides feebly dilated from base to near apex and then abruptly 

 narrowed, across middle with a shallow depression but more 

 conspicuously impressed on sides, near base with two small 

 conspicuous foveae, separated by a shining median line ; with 

 rather small, irregularly-distributed punctures; but crowded 

 in the impressed parts. Elytra much wider than prothorax, 

 feebly dilated to beyond the middle, with a feeble swelling on 

 each side of scutellum at base, and a shallow depression 

 behind each swelling; junctures dense and rather small but 

 sharply defined about base, becoming very small posteriorly. 

 Legs rather long and thin. Length, 2 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). 

 Type (unique), I. 6175. 



Structurally close to impressicollis, but shoulders con- 

 spicuously reddish ; humeralis (Lea, nee Pic) is a smaller 

 species, with pale head and prothorax and coarser punctures. 

 The reddish mark on each shoulder is about half the size of 

 the head, the apical part of the elytra is obscurely diluted 

 with red, the hind femora are infuscated (the other parts of 

 the hind legs are missing) ; the three apical joints of the 

 antennae are infuscated, but only the apical one conspicuously 

 so. The distance between the eyes at their nearest point is 

 slightly greater than the length of the basal antennal joint. 

 The type appears to be a female. 



Xylophilus poecilopterus, n. sp. 



o* . Brownish-black ; antennae, palpi, and legs (the four 

 hind femora infuscated) flavo-testaceous. Clothed with short 

 and extremely short, ashen or whitish pubescence. 



Head moderately convex between eyes; with small, norm- 

 ally-concealed punctures. Eyes lateral, prominent, rather 

 widely separated and very lightly notched. Antennae rather 



