222 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Ueteromerom Coleoptera 
elytra wider than, and three or four times the length of, the pro- 
thorax, oval or oblong-oval ; legs rather short, the femora stout ; 
anterior and intermediate tarsi with joints 3 and 4, and the pos- 
terior tarsi with joint 3, lamellate beneath ; posterior femora 
sulcate beneath (towards the apex only in 0. ^jaZ/ews) ; claws pecti- 
nate ; body oblong-oval, narrow, glabrous or pubescent, winged. 
Three small species from North or West Australia 
are referred to this genus; two are glabrous and one 
pubescent,, the latter possessing extraordinary male- 
characters. The narrow apical joint of the maxillary 
palpi, the comparatively short legs, etc., separate 
Otys from AUecula, F. (including Somotrysis, Hyhrenia, 
etc.), Hymenorus, Muls., and Scatetomerus, Blackb. I do 
not attach any importance to the greater or less 
sulcature of the hind femora beneath, a character used by 
Blackburn to distinguish some of the Australian genera. 
Otys is perhaps nearest allied to Scaletomerus, which 
possesses two species of Harpalid facies. 
Otys harpalinusj n. sp. 
Oblong-oval, moderately convex, shining, glabrous ; the hea. 
and prothorax rufous or obscure rufous, the elytra pitchy-black o 
piceous, the suture sometimes obscure rufous towards the base 
the anteonse ferruginous, the legs testaceous ; beneath ferruginous, 
the abdomen piceous. Head thickly, very finely punctate ; th' 
eyes large, separated in both sexes by a space about equalling, 
one-half the width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; antennui 
not quite half the length of the body in the male, shorter in th 
female. Prothorax strongly transverse, convex, widest a littl 
behind the middle, the sides rounded in front and slightly con 
verging behind, the hind angles subrectangular ; the surfac 
closely, very finely punctate and with a few coarser puncture 
intermixed, canaliculate behind, and with small but distinc 
basal foveas. Elytra about three or three and one-half time 
the length of, and considerably wider than, the prothorax, oblong- 
oval ; finely punctate-striate ; the interstices almost flat on the 
disc, slightly convex towards the sides and apex, very sparsely, 
exceedingly minutely punctate, and with a coarser puncture here 
and there intermixed. Posterior femora sulcate beneath from 
near the base to the apex. 
$ . Anterior and intermediate tibiae sinuous within ; posterior 
femora sparsely ciliate along their lower edge. 
Length 4-4^, breadth If mm. {$ 2)- 
Hah. N. W. Australia — Roebuck Bay. 
