PAPERS READ. 
CONTEIBUTIOXS TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
COLEOPTEEA OF AUSTRALIA. 
By a. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., 
Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 
No. Y. — On Certain Species belonging to Unrecorded Genera. 
ANOBIID^. 
Dorcatoma (Herbst). 
Dorcatoma lanigera, sp.n. 
Elongate-ovate, moderately robust and convex, reddish testa- 
ceous, somewhat shining, closely covered with long recumbent 
testaceous pubescence ; elytra strongly punctate-striate. Head 
transverse, very finely punctured. Antennse reddish testaceous. 
Protliorax transverse, rather convex, narrowed in front, linely 
punctured, the pubescence both longitudinally and transversely 
recumbent] the sides slightly constricted in the middle. Scutellum 
very small, transverse. Elytra more than twice as long as the 
prothorax, nearly parallel for two-thirds of their length, then 
arcuately rounded to the apex, strongly and rather closely punctate- 
striate, the interstices narrow, impunctate, and slightly raised, the 
puljescence fine and silky, especially thick near the sides; shoulders 
rather prominent. Lf-gs reddish testaceous, tarsi inclining to 
fuscous. Length 2Jmm. 
Sydney, New South Wales; found among dead leaves. 
