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the rest of the legs, the antennae, and palpi are conspicuously 

 flavous. The pubescence causes part of the upper-surface to 

 appear to have a kind of "bloom." The distance between 

 the eyes at their nearest point is slightly more than the 

 length of the basal antennal joint. The elytra at their 

 widest are more than twice the width of the prothorax. 



Xylophilus brachyderes, n. sp. 



Of a dingy light brownish-red, palpi and most of legs 

 paler; head, an elytral fascia, abdomen (wholly or in part), 

 and hind femora more or less deeply infuscated. Densely 

 clothed with very short, pale pubescence. 



Head strongly convex ; with dense, small, and partially- 

 concealed punctures. Eyes prominent, lightly notched, 

 widely separated, and (for the genus) small. Antennae 

 rather short, second joint subglobular and slightly shorter 

 than third, fourth-tenth each transverse and slightly dilated 

 to apex, eleventh very little wider than tenth, and shorter 

 than ninth and tenth combined. Prothorax strongly trans- 

 verse, sides lightly dilated to near apex, and then suddenly 

 narrowed, base very lightly trisinuate, with two shallow 

 depressions near middle of base ; punctures very dense but 

 partially concealed by clothing. Elytra distinctly wider than 

 base of prothorax, but at base not much wider than widest 

 part of same, sides lightly but distinctly dilated to beyond 

 the middle; punctures dense and rather sharply denned (but 

 partially obscured by pubescence) about base, but becoming 

 very small posteriorly. Legs rather long and thin. Length, 

 1-1J mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Rockhampton, to light (A. M. Lea), 

 Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler), Helidon (C. J. Wild, in Queens- 

 land Museum); New South Wales: Richmond River (A. J. 

 Coates), Sydney (C. Gibbons). Type, I. 6168. 



A small dumpy species, structurally closer perhaps to 

 crassicornis than to any other Australian species, but with 

 very different colours. The male differs from the female in 

 having slightly larger eyes, antennae somewhat longer, elytra 

 less dilated posteriorly, abdomen less convex, and legs dis- 

 tinctly longer; the hind tibiae are rather thin and no wider 

 at apex than in middle. The elytral fascia touches the sides 

 slightly in advance of the middle, but touches the suture 

 almost at the exact middle, and is subtriangularly continued 

 along the suture half-way to the apex; although not very 

 dark it is quite distinct on all the (six) specimens under 

 examination ; the vicinity of the scutellum is sometimes lightly 

 infuscated. The greatest width of the prothorax is almost 



