collected in Australia and Tasmania. 225 
any Cistelid known to me. The elytra are almost con- 
nate, though the wings are visible beneath them. The 
insect appears to live in ant^s nests. 
lophon 7nyrmecophilus, n. sp. (Plate YI., fig. 4, c^.) 
Moderately elongate, narrow, convex, shining, brownish-ferru- 
ginous, somewhat thickly clothed with long, decumbent, fulvous 
hairs. Head densely, finely punctate ; antennae extending to the 
middle of the elytra. Prothorax convex, subcordate, much wider 
than the head, a little broader than long ; the hind angles rectan- 
gular ; the surface finely and rather closely punctate, distinctly 
canaliculate for a short distance before the middle and also feebly 
at the base. Elytra about three and one-fourth times the length 
of, and nearly one-half wider than, the prothorax ; rather coarsely 
punctate-striate, the punctures very closely placed, but becoming 
more scattered on the apical declivity ; the interstices almost flat, 
irregularly uniseriate-punctate, the punctures similar to those of 
the striae and towards the base becoming more crowded. Beneath 
thickly punctured. 
$, Antennae a little longer than in the female; apical joint of 
the maxillary palpi stouter and more triangular ; legs much stouter, 
the femora especially, the tibiae strongly bowed inwards, the inter- 
mediate and hind tarsi with their basal joints greatly thickened and 
compressed. 
Length 4-4i, breadth mm. {$ 2)- 
Hah. N. W. Australia — Port Darwin. 
One pair has been sent me by Mr. Walker ; and others 
have been forwarded by him to the British Museum. 
Found under stones, in the nests of Ectatomma reticula- 
tum, Forel ; also taken on the wing (Walker). 
NOCAE. 
Nocar, Blackburn, Trans. E. Soc. S. Austr., xiv., p. 328 
(1891). 
Nocar latus. 
Nocar latus, Blackb., loc. cit., p. 329. 
Kab. Tasmania — New Norfolk and Hobart. 
Several specimens, agreeing with one from South 
Australia received from the describer of the species; 
the localities given by him are South Australia and 
Victoria. 
