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punctures, and clothing forming distinct patterns. These pat- 

 terns however may easily lose their symmetry where a specimen 

 has become greasy. Four specimens were secured at Fern Tree 

 Gully, and six at Warburton by sieving damp moss collected from 

 treefern trunks and old logs. 

 Type in author's collection. 



Pedilophorus globosus, n.sp. 



^ Reddish-brown, becoming darker in places, glabrous, nitid. 

 Legs, palpi and two basal joints of antennae fuscous, rest of 

 antennae darker; antennae finely pubescent, clypeus with a few 

 longer hairs. Under surface and legs clothed with very short 

 pale pubescence, densest on apical ventral segment. 



Head rather large, with somewhat sparse, but well-defined 

 punctures, fairly uniformly distributed; antennae moderately 

 long; joint 1 very stout; 2 thinner, and decreasing towards apex; 

 3 much thinner, and approximately equal to the three following 

 combined; 4, 5, 6 slightly decreasing in length; 7 rounded; 8, 9, 

 10 transverse, and forming with 11, which is stout, and bluntly 

 pointed, a well defined club. Prothorax smooth, strongly con- 

 Arex, almost twice as long as broad, rounded in front, and evenly 

 •decreasing in width from base to apex ; lateral margins narrow. 

 Scutellum apparently wanting. Elytra smooth, very convex, 

 almost continuous with outlines of prothorax ; epipleurae very 

 broad to about hind coxae, then becoming abruptly, but evenly 

 narrowed down to their termination just beyond base of apical 

 ventral segment. Under a high power the abdominal segments 

 appear to have fairly numerous shallow transverse depressions 

 on their surface, this being not so noticeable on the apical seg- 

 ment. 



Length. — 1.5 mm. : 



Habitat. — Victoria : Warburton, near the summit of Mount 

 Donna Buang, Fernshaw (F. E. Wilson). 



In the type and one other specimen the ^ sexual organs are 

 well exserted, and consist of a fairly long, parallel-sided penis, on 

 either side of which are two acutely pointed horny processes. 



When highly magnified a very obscure transverse row of dark 

 spots can be discerned on the prothorax, just above the basal 

 margin. One specimen of the twelve under examination 

 is almost quite black, the others being coloured as in the type. 

 This species comes nearest to P. atrouifcns, Lea, but may be 



