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with rather dense lightly golden pubescence, this shorter on head 

 and prothorax. 



Head as long as broad, strongly impressed between antennal 

 ridges, with two well marked inter-ocular foveae, placed well up on 

 disc, and a faint impression on disc near base; with sparse 

 indistinct punctures except on antennal ridges where they are very 

 coarse; antennae of moderate length, very robust, joint 1 viewed 

 from the side, as long as 2 and 3 combined, 2 slightly narrower than 

 1, almost moniliform, 3 as long as 2, widened from base to apex, 

 4-8 of equal width, lightly transverse, 5 a little longer than adjacent 

 ones, 9 and 10 transverse, subequal, much wider than 8, 11 wider than 

 10 and about equal in length to the two preceding combined, subovate,. 

 lightly hollowed out on undersurface at base; all joints very coarsely 

 punctured. Prothorax lightly transverse, rather more widened than 

 usual on its apical half, with a strong medio-basal fovea, and two 

 round lateral foveae on each side, one basal and one submedian; 

 puncturation as on head. Elytra strongly transverse, sides increasing 

 in width to near apex, with well marked sutural striae, and a short 

 but wide basal impression on either side, midway between suture and 

 lateral border; puncturation as on prothorax. Abdomen rather long, 

 wider than elytra. Metasternum much raised in front, with twa 

 small, somewhat transverse tubercules near together in disc, im- 

 mediately behind intermediate coxae; between these and posterior 

 coxae the surface is strongly declivous, and somewhat excavated. Hind 

 trochanters very feebly armed. Undersurface of abdomen strongly 

 flattened, lightly excavate near apex. Hind tibiae gradually inflated 

 internally to about the middle, thence becoming rather suddenly 

 reduced in width, from some angles the internal inflation seems to 

 take the form of a carina. 



Length, 3.3 mm. 



2 Similar, but with hind tibiae normal and abdomen convex 

 beneath. 



Habitat. — Victoria: Warburton, in tussocks (F. E. Wilson),. 

 Belgrave, in moss (C. Oke and P. E. Wilson). 



Type in author's collection. 



Palimbolus pacifica, n.sp. 



(^ Rather slender, flavous; antennae and abdomen slightly 

 darker; head and prothorax sparsely clothed with moderately long 

 pale pubescence, that on elytra longer and a little darker, appearing 

 almost black in some lights; abdomen densely pubescent. 



Head as wide as long, inter-antennal ridges rather broad, and 

 coarsely punctate, with a deep impression between them; inter-ocular 

 foveae strongly defined, placed well up on disc; puncturation sparse,, 

 larger on base and sides, smaller on disc; antennae of moderate 

 length, joint 1 subcylindric, viewed from the side, larger than 2 and 

 3. combined, 2-6, subequal; subquadrate, lightly narrower than 1, 7 

 and 8 about as long as 6 but slightly increasing in width, 9 about 

 one and a-half times larger than 8, dilated towards apepc, 10 ot 



