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Notes on Some Miscellaneous Coleoptera, with 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. PART II. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 



[Contribution from the South Australian Museum.! 



[Read September 14, 1916.] 



Plates XXXII. to XXXIX. 



CUCUJIDAE. 



Nepharis. 

 This genus has been transferred from the Colvdiidae to 

 the Silvanides of the Cucicjidae by Grouvelle (Ann. Soe. Ent. 

 Fr., 1912, p. 320), who also (p. 322) proposed a new genus 

 (Nepharinm) for N. gouUiei. I have now to describe 

 another remarkable species of the group, recording it for the 

 first time from Queensland. 



Nepharis doddi, n. sp. 



Castaneous, upper-surface somewhat darker than under. 



Head wide, almost flat, each side with a feeble longi- 

 tudinal depression; with rather small punctures, becoming 

 denser and larger about base ; each side with a conspicuous 

 notch at the position of the eye. Antennae clavate. 

 Froth ora.x wide, evenly convex along middle, sides flattened 

 and each with from ten to fifteen serrations, the apical one more 

 sharply defined than the others ; punctures as on base of head. 

 Scutellum. widely transverse. Elytra about the width of 

 prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex; finely striate, the 

 interstices each with a row of punctures; with wide margins 

 of almost even width throughout. Under -but j act with 

 sharply-defined punctures, varying from rather small on 

 flanks of prosternum to rather coarse on abdomen. Femora 

 stout, strongly dentate. Length, 2J-2J mm. 



Flab. — Queensland: Cairns district, three specimens 

 From nest of a small red ant of the genus Pheirlole (F. P. 

 Dodd). Type, I. 5772. 



The absence of prothoracic costae associates this species 

 with serraticollis, from which it is distinguished by its smaller 

 size, much smaller punctures, head wider and scarcely notched 

 in front, and margins of elytra not notched at apex. Seen 

 from below, each side of the head appears as a wide thin 

 flange, with the interspace moderately elevated, coarsely 



