822 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



sublineatim minus fortiter nee crebre, punctulatis; his (stria 

 suturali antice abbreviata excepta) baud stiiatis ; subtus niger, 

 subtiliter coriaceus, brevissime pubescens. 



Long. 1^ lines, lat. ^l line (vix). 



Not very much like any other species known to me. Its general 

 appearance at the first glance is much that of an Ariaccena, but 

 on closer inspection the very feebly punctured head and prothorax, 

 and the very evident tendency of the elytral puncturation to run 

 in rows, give it a distinctive chai-acter among its allies. I have seen 

 only a single specimen, and have little doubt that a long series 

 would show as much color variation as in the preceding. 



Roseworthy, S. Australia. 



Philhydrus i^vigatus, sp.nov. 



Ovalis ; nitidus ; brunneus, capite obscuriore, prothoracis disco 

 et elytrorum sutura infuscatis ; antennis palpisque testaceis ; 

 his apice vix infuscatis ; ca])ite prothoraceque subtilissime, elytris 

 subtiliter, punctulatis ; subtus niger, pedibus rufis, femoribus vix 

 infu.scatis Long, li lines, lat. f line. 



The head is of a dark pitchy color, the clypeus (especially at 

 the sides) paler ; the prothorax has a large obscure fuscous cloud 

 in the middle of the disc ; the elytra are infuscate along the 

 suture and at a short distance within the margins. In size, shape 

 and coloring of elytra, this species resembles the European P. 

 inargiiieUus, Fab., but the head and prothorax (as also the palpi, 

 antennae, and legs) are quite differently colored, and the punctura. 

 tion of all parts is very much finer ; the puiicturation (especially 

 that of the head and prothorax) can scarcely be discerned at all 

 under a less powerful lens than a Coddington. There is no 

 indication whatever of any strife on the elytra except the sutural 

 one, which is wanting in the anterior third part. 



I took a single specimen in Western Victoria ; there is also a 

 specimen in the South Australian Museum, taken by Mr. Tepper 



