BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
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pro thorax wider and less deeply emarginate, head darker, tibiae 
differently spurred, somewhat feebler pimcturation, and its more 
sober colour. My Pitt Town specimens (three) were taken from 
the nest of a Diamond Sparrow, and some of the Sydney ones 
from the nests of a Processionary Moth. 
DlPLOCCELUS PUNCTATUS, 11. Sp. 
Subparallel, subdepressed, shining. Dark brownish-red, elytra 
dark red, legs bright red. Above with long yellowish pubescence, 
longest at the sides, much shorter and sparser on the undersurface; 
tibiae with short spurs and setae at their apices. Head densely 
and strongly, prothorax as strongly but not so densely punctate, 
with several rows of quadrate punctures at the sides; elytra 
striate - punctate, the punctures large, quadrate, interstices 
minutely punctate; sterna with large shallow punctures; abdo- 
minal segments minutely punctate. 
Head transverse (when at rest); eyes moderately prominent; 
antennae widely separated, scarcely reaching base of prothorax, 
two basal joints rather large, middle joint of club widely trans- 
verse, much wider than basal, apical subcircular. Prothorax 
transversely oblong; apex widely and feebly emarginate, base very 
feebly — if at all — bisinuate; posterior angles almost rectangular; 
sides narrowly margined and narrowly bicostate; base feebly im- 
pressed in the middle. Scutellum very narrowly transverse. 
Elytra about one and a half times as long as head and prothorax 
combined, base truncate, shoulders rounded, scarcely wider than 
prothorax. Basal segment of abdomen with two oblique lines on 
each side. Legs short, tibiae straight and widening to apex. 
Length 2|, width 1 (vix) mm. 
Hob. — Richmond River, N.S.W. 
From D. fasciatus, the present species may be distinguished by 
its narrower, more parallel outline, absence of elytral fascia 
(though in that species it is sometimes almost obsolete), less convex 
form, shorter antennae, with shorter club, more sober colour, and 
somewhat feebler puncturation. 
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