230 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Goleoptera 
behind ; coarsely, closely punctate, the interspaces smooth and 
irregularly raised. Beneath very sparsely punctured. Tibiae un- 
armed in the male. Length 8-10, breadth 3^-4^ mm. ( ^ ? ). 
Hab. N. W. Australia — Adelaide River. 
Two examples. Smaller and narrower than L. seneo- 
violacea, the head and thorax much narrower, the 
antennae very short and more thickened outwardly, the 
eyes much less deeply emarginate and with the upper 
portion more rounded, the head more rugosely punctured 
behind, the thorax not margined at the base and simply 
punctured. The male is immature and has the basal 
joints of the antennae rufous and the epipleurae entirely 
testaceous. L. australis differs from L. cyanea, Macl., 
specimens of which from Queensland are contained in 
Mr. F. Bates^s collection, in having the thorax and the 
interocular space of the head less densely punctured, the 
eyes larger and more rounded, the antennae darker at the 
base, and the elytral interspaces more strongly plicate. 
MELANDRYID^. 
DiRCJCA. 
Dircsea, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl., pp. 6, 121 
(1798). 
Phhiotryay Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., v., p. 35 (1832). 
Dircsea veluUna, n. sp. 
Elongate, flattened-cylindrical, opaque, pitchy-brown or brown, 
the front of the head and the apex of the prothorax ferruginous, 
the antennae, legs, and under surface ferruginous or fusco- 
ferruginous ; above and beneath thickly clothed with a very jfine 
sericeous brown pubescence, the entire upper surface very densely, 
minutely punctate. Antennae short, extending very little beyond 
the humeri, joint 3 much shorter than 4, 4-10 obconic, 11 oblong- 
ovate. Prothorax convex, flattened along the middle of the disc, 
a little broader than long, much wider at the base than at the 
apex ; the sides, as viewed from above, obliquely converging from 
a little before the base to the apex, and rounded behind, the 
marginal carina not extending beyond the middle forwards ; the 
apex rounded, the base feebly bisinuate, the hind angles obtuse ; 
the surface sometimes with indications of a smooth median Hne 
on the disc, without trace of basal foveae. Elytra elongate, sub- 
parallel to beyond the middle, flattened towards the suture, with 
