U40 
FrRTHER yOTES ON ACSTRALIAy COLEOPTERA, 
1-3 moderately slender (2 very short, 3 a little longer than 1), 4 
scarcely longer than 3, 5-10 shorter, 11 slightly the longest of all, 
4-8 dilated (each more strongly in succession), 9 and 10 gradually 
less dilated, 1 1 slender ; the ix>sterior tibue have a small tooth on 
their inner margin near the apex, and the eyes are almost con- 
tiguous on lx)th surfaces of the head. 
In the female the maxillary palpi are scarcely longer than the 
long joint in the male, the antenme scarcely differ from those of 
the male except in the intermediate joints not being dilated, the 
posterior tibiae are unarmed, and the eyes are a Uttle more ■widely 
sepiarated both above and below. 
There are five ventral segments (of which the last is evenly 
rounded at its apical margin) in both sexes. The hind-body 
(except the base in some examples) is pitchy black. 
The size varies from 2| to 4 lines. 
A. APiCALis, sp.nov. 
2- Testacea, elytris abdomineque a pice piceis j capite pro- 
thoraceque subtiliter creberrime punctulatis ; elytris punctulato- 
striatis ; interstitiis (apicem versus convexis) subtilius sat crebre 
punctulatis. [Long. 4, lat. li lines. 
Extremely close to the corresjx)nding sex of A. jxjJpalis, Mad. 
Apart from colour and markings, the eyes are more approximate, — 
almost as close as in palpalis — and the head and prothorax 
are evidently more finely and closely punctured. The latter is also 
slightly less transverse, and more narrowed in front ; its width 
across the base Ls about a quarter again its length do^'Ti the middle 
and very nearly twice the -width of its front margin, the sides 
converge from base to apex with a very gentle curve, the front is 
nearly truncate, the base bisinuate, and there is an ill-defined -wide 
impression down the hinder part of the middle between which 
and the lateral margin is a small bsisal impression on either side. 
A single specimen was sent to me from Western Australia by 
E. Meyrick, Esq. 
