206 NtiW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, VIII., 



punctate. Apical segment of abdomen feebly impressed. Length 

 1#, to apex of elytra 1 mm. 



Hab. — Bruni Island, Tasm. 



The derm on each side of the median impression is raised so as 

 to form a narrow V, this elevation being all the more distinctly 

 defined on account of the medio-lateral impressions; the apices 

 of the V are slightly thickened and bent outwards. The elongate 

 elytral punctures are rather small but are very sharply defined, 

 and are totally different in character from those of any other 

 species here mentioned or described. 



OXYTELUS M-ELHVATUS, 11. sp. 



Small, depressed, subopaque, abdomen moderately shining. 

 Black, elytra and legs dull reddish-brown, tibiae and tarsi paler. 



Head rather small; densely and finely punctate, with three 

 small basal fovese, of which the median one is slightly in advance 

 of the others; clypeal sutures indistinct. Prothorax very flat, 

 moderately transverse, apex slightly wider than base or than 

 head; densely punctate, the raised spaces less noticeably so; with 

 three median impressions, of which the median is narrowed pos- 

 teriorly but continuous to base. Elytra lightly transverse, about 

 once and one-half the length of prothorax and not much wider; 

 sides and base shining and with small and rather scattered punc- 

 tures, elsewhere opaque and evidently densely and closely but 

 very indistinctly punctate. Under surface of apical segment of 

 abdomen longitudinally impressed in middle. Length 1J, to apex 

 of elytra § mm. 



Hab. — Richmond River, N.S.W. 



Each of the three small fovese of the head marks the termination 

 of a short depression, of which the median one is very indistinct. 

 The prothoracic elevations are somewhat as in the preceding 

 species, but differ in the sides of the median V being separated 

 at the base and not thickened or turned round at the summit; 

 the outer side also of each of the medio-lateral impressions is 

 slightly raised, so that the elevated spaces form a rather distinct 

 M, disconnected, however, as to its parts. 



