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Head, with small and rather indistinct punctures ; clypeal 

 suture curved deep and non-foveate. Antennae rather long 

 and thin, none of the joints transverse, third as long as fourth 

 and fifth combined. Proihorax more than thrice as wide as 

 long; with numerous minute punctures and a few of larger 

 size irregularly distributed. Elytra with regular rows of 

 fairly large punctures ; the interstices with sparse and minute 

 ones. Inter-coxal process of prosterniom rather narrowly 

 elevated in middle. Basal segment of abdomen with lamellae 

 moderately large and rounded posteriorly. Length, 3 mm. 



/TV/ft.— South Australia: South Para Hills (J. G. O. 

 Tepper). Type (unique), I. 3394. 



The general outlines are much as those of blackburni, 

 but the conspicuously flavous margins should render the 

 species easy of recognition. 



Geomela bryophaga, n. sp. 



Blackish-brown or black, with conspicuous markings ; 

 under-surface variable in colour, appendages flavous or 

 reddish-flavous, the knees infuscated. 



Head with minute punctures. Antennae rather lono- 



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and thin, third joint very little longer than fourth, eleventh 

 about as long as ninth and tenth combined. Proihorax 

 about four times as wide as long, base gently and evenly 

 rounded ; with irregularly distributed and rather minute 

 punctures. Scutellum very small. Elytra with small and 

 vaguely impressed punctures in feeble striae ; the interstices 

 impunctate. Inter-coxal process of prosternam rather nar- 

 rowly elevated in middle. Basal lamellae of ahdomen small 

 and rounded posteriorly. Length, 2-2^ mm. 



Hah.— Tasmania : Mount Wellington, from moss and 

 fallen leaves; Hobart, from moss (H. H. D. Griffith and 

 A. M. Lea). Type, I. 5669. 



The colour of the upper-surface varies from a dark 

 piceous-brown to deep-black, with a slight metallic gloss ; the 

 head is more or less obscurely reddish, each front angle of 

 the prothorax is flavous, the marking usually almost square 

 and sharply limited (extending to about one-third from the 

 base), but occasionally not sharply defined internally, the 

 margins of the elytra are narrowly flavous, with the marking 

 continued along the suture almost to the summit of the apical 

 slope. On some specimens almost the whole of the under- 

 surface is reddish or flavous, but the front angles of the 

 prosternum and the elytral epipleurae are flavous on all those 

 before me. From some directions the head appears to have 

 a conspicuous median line, but it is really feeble ; the clypeal 

 suture, according to the point of view, appears very distinct, 



