BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
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intermediate, and wider than any segment of the hind body ; 
about six long bristles on inner basal edge of hind tibia ; basal 
part of external margin of hind femur with a fringe of strong 
cilia, their inner apex very little pi’oduced but distinctly angu- 
lated. The epipleural portion of the elytra is unusually wide, 
and not at all turned under except at the extreme base. 
Port Lincoln ; I have seen only a single specimen. 
H. TRISTIS, sp.nov. 
Sat elongatus, postice leviter dilatatus ; sat nitidus ; niger, 
antennis palpis pedibusque plus minus rufis ; pilis brevibus 
adpressis vestitus ; capite confertim rugulose, prothorace fortius 
nec crebre, elytris squamose crebrius, pygidio sparsim, punctulatis ; 
subtus fortius nec crebre punctulatus ; abdominis segmentis ut 
prsecedentis setiferis. 6, lat. 3 lines. 
The head and prothorax scarcely differ in shape and proportions 
from those of H. insignis, except that the clypeal suture is quite 
straight ; the elytra are a little less dilated behind. The upper 
surface is devoid of erect hairs or setse except the pygidium (which 
is clothed with fine long reddish hairs), and the lateral and apical 
margins of the elytra which are fringed with coarse red bristles 
springing from minute granules ; the bristles in the fringes are 
much closer, but the row is not doubled round the apex. 
The puncturation on the underside becomes very faint down 
the middle of the ventral segments. The hind coxaj are 
shorter than the metasternum and scarcely overlap the basal 
ventral segment. The hind femora are wider than the interme- 
diate, but .scarcely wider than the segments of the hind body ; 
there are a few reddish bristles on the inner basal edge of the 
hind tibim and a fringe of short hairs reaching from the base to 
VKjyond the middle of the external mai-gin of the hind femora. 
The middle line of the pygidium is feebly sulcate in its apical half. 
The inner apical margin of the hind femora is moderately pro- 
duced, its outline rounded rather than angulated. 
Occurs in the Adelaide district. 
