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It seems quite possible that Goetymes flavicornis is the 

 male of the species. But I am unaware as to whether speci- 

 mens (which are of the rarest in collections) have ever been 

 taken mating. 



SlTARIDA SCABRICEPS, n. Sp. 



PL xvi., figs. 10 and 11. 



Deep black, elytra partly of a dingy-flavous ; tip of 

 abdomen and parts of tarsi of a dingy-red. Rather sparsely 

 clothed with greyish pubescence. 



Read moderately transverse, widest near base, base gently 

 emarginate; with dense and rather strong punctures through- 

 out; forehead with numerous small angular processes or 

 tubercles. Eyes each divided into two lobes of uneven sizes. 

 Antennae rather short, first joint curved, about as long as the 

 four following combined, second and third short, fourth 

 longer and equilaterally triangular, fifth to tenth serrate, 

 eleventh oblique, about half the length of first. Pro thorax 

 about as long as wide, widest slightly in advance of middle, 

 thence rather strongly narrowed to apex, and feebly diminish- 

 ing in width to base, basal angles rounded and not at all 

 produced, median line distinct; surface somewhat uneven and 

 with slightly coarser punctures than on head. Elytra, about 

 as long as head and prothorax combined, each gradually 

 diminishing in width to apex, which is obtusely rounded, with 

 four obtuse costae ; surface shagreened, in places finely rugu- 

 lose punctate. Length, 8-12J mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: Hobart, reared in breeding-cages from 

 logs of wood (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3208. 



The colours are apparently much as in minor, except that 

 a much greater portion of the elytra is pale ^ 8 ^ ; but differs 

 from the description and figure of that species in the head 

 being of different shape and much rougher, third joint even 

 shorter than second, instead of as long as fourth, prothorax 

 of very different shape (especially at the base) and without 

 smooth elevations. The connecting piece between the lobes 

 of each eye is very narrow, but two rows of facets may be 

 traced at the narrowest part. The abdomen has irregularly 

 dried on the three specimens before me ; on the under-surface 

 of one it is widely concave along the middle, on another it is 

 longitudinally sulcate, whilst on the third the fourth segment 

 is quite strongly ridged along the middle. Each of them (as 

 also on the three specimens of the following species) has a 

 narrow process projecting from the tip of the abdomen ; but 



(8) Rather more than half, the* dark parts being the apical 

 two-fifths, and a slight amount at the base. 



