collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
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The single small species from Tasmania from which the 
above characters are taken is closely allied to the 
American genera Thisias,^ Physcius, Gleodseus, and 
Conomorphus, Champ., and Eurypus, Kir by. It ap- 
proaches nearest to Thisias ; but differs from that genus 
in its short head, more rounded eyes, nari'ow transversely 
subquadrate thorax, small and strongly transverse scu- 
tellum, etc. From Lagrioida, Fairm., which is also an 
allied form, it may be known by its depressed form, 
shorter limbs, etc. 
Tellias fumatus, n. sp. (Plate VI., fig. 9.) 
Ferruginous or f usco-testaceous, slightly shining, the eyes black, 
the sides of the prothorax usually broadly inf uscate ; the elytra 
pitchy-brown or piceous, with the disc before the middle broadly 
suffused with testaceous, this colour sometimes extending to the 
base ; the antennae and legs testaceous ; the entire upper surface 
densely, finely punctate and finely pubescent. Head somewhat 
convex, the punctures between the eyes here and there longitudi- 
nally confluent. Prothorax rather convex, transversely subquadrate , 
the sides slightly converging behind and a little rounded in front, 
the base distinctly margined at the middle, the basal foveas deep and 
in some specimens extending obliquely forwards to near the middle 
of the disc. Elytra four and one-half times the length of, and at 
the base one-half wider than, the prothorax, widening to about two- 
thirds of their length, and thence rapidly and arcuately converging 
to the apex, the humeri rounded, the disc flattened, the surface con- 
fusedly punctured, without trace of striae. Beneath closely and 
finely, the pro- and mesosternum coarsely, punctured. Length 
3f~4i breadth mm. 
Hah. Tasmania — Hobart and New Norfolk. 
Found in some numbers, under the bark of Euca- 
lyptus trees. I am unable to detect any external sexual 
characters. 
Lagrioida. 
Lagrioida, Fairmaire and Germain, Col. Chil., p. 3 
(1860); Ann, Soc. Bnt. Fr., 1863, p, 234. 
As I have elsewhere noted,t this genus has the anterior 
- Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 2, p. 102, t. 5, figs. 7, 7a, b (1889). 
t Ent. Monthly Mag., xxvi., p. 121 (1890). 
