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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. 



Bv Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. 



Part VIII. 



(Plate xviii.) 



Family STAPHYLINID^l. 



Antimerus punctipennis, n.sp. 



(Plate xviii., fig.l.) 



£. Blackish-brown; head, prothorax and elytra of a metallic 

 •coppery-bronze, in places glossed with green; antennae, tarsi, front 

 and parts of four hind tibiae reddish. Clothed, except on head 

 and prothorax, with blackish hair, becoming red in places; head 

 and prothorax with sparse hairs on sides. 



Head large, transverse, with seven large punctures on each side 

 and with some smaller ones about the base and neck; jaws long 

 and thin. Antennae thin, extending almost to base of prothorax, 

 1st joint as long as 2nd-3rd combined. Prothorax about as long 

 as wide, with large marginal punctures — five on each side in front, 

 four in each front, and two in each hind angle. Scutellum large 

 and triangular, with numerous setiferous punctures. Elytra not 

 much wider than head, with dense, rather large, round, clearly 

 defined setiferous punctures, the interspaces very finely rugulose. 

 Abdomen with dense setiferous punctures. Legs stout, middle 

 tibiae densely, the hind moderately densely spinose. Length to 

 apex of elytra 9, of abdomen 15 mm. 



#«&.— Gosford, N.S.W. (A. M. Lea). 



I have seen this species in several collections under the name 

 of A. smaraydinus, and had it so named myself, but recently 



