216 Mr. G. C. Champion on the E.eteromerous Goleoptera 
piceous, the suture very narrowly infuscate or piceous ; beneath in 
great part piceous; the antennas brown or pitchy-brown, the legs 
testaceous or brownish. Head densely, finely punctate, the epi- 
stoma short and limited behind by a deep groove ; the eyes 
moderately large, separated by a space about equalling half the 
width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; the apical joint of 
the maxillary palpi elongate-triangular ; the antennae extending 
nearly to the naiddle of the elytra, rather slender, joints 3 and 4 
equal in length, 11 shorter than 10. Prothorax a little broader 
than long, feebly convex, slightly flattened on the disc ; the 
sides parallel behind, moderately rounded in front ; the surface 
densely and rugulosely punctured, with very shallow basal fovea} 
placed just within the margin. Elytra three and one-half times 
the length of, and much wider than, the prothorax, oblong-oval, 
par£lllel towards the base ; finely punctate-striate, the interstices 
feebly convex, sparsely, shallowly, minutely punctate. Legs 
moderately long, the femora stout ; the intermediate and hind 
tibiae feebly bowed inwards and subsinuate. Length 6^, breadth 
2 mm. ((^). 
Sab. Tasmania — Hobart. 
Three specimens, all males. This species is not very 
closely allied to any of those described by Pascoe, or F. 
Bates, whose types I have examined. The head is less 
prolonged in front than in C. rufijpennis, Blackb,, the 
labrum being much shorter ; the eyes are larger and 
more prominent than in that insect. 
Allecula. 
Allecula, Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 21 (1801) ; 
Lacordaire, Gen. Col._, v., p. 502. 
Allecula luctuosa, n. sp. 
Elongate, very broad, subparallel, flattened above, subopaque, . 
glabrous, brownish-black, the prothorax piceous, the oral organs, 
antennae, coxae, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous. Head rather small, 
closely, finely, very irregularly punctate, the epistoma large and 
broad ; the eyes transverse, feebly emarginate, comparatively 
small, separated by a space rather greater than the width of one 
of the eyes as seen from above ; the apical joint of the maxillary 
palpi stout, subcultriform ; the antennae rather slender, about half 
the length of the body, joints 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax convex, 
strongly transverse, at the base nearly twice the width of the 
head ; the sides parallel behind, strongly rounded in front ; the 
