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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
DlPLOCCELUS LATUS, n.Sp. 
Short, thick, subdepressed, shining. Chocolate-brown; lower 
surface, legs, and antennae paler. Clothed all over with moderately 
long pubescence, longest and blackest above, shortest and yellowish 
beneath. Very minutely punctate all over; the head with dense 
and rather small punctures, larger and sparser on prothorax; 
elytra seriate-punctate, the punctures moderately large and sub- 
quadrate at base, feebler towards apex; sterna distinctly and not 
very densely punctate. 
Head transverse; eyes prominent; antennae widely separated^ 
not passing anterior coxa?, two basal joints of club transverse — 
the middle wider than basal, apical joint circular. Prothorax 
broadly transverse, very little wider behind than in front; sides 
slightly rounded, apex feebly and widely emarginate, sides 
narrowly margined and with traces of costse. Scutellum very 
small, widely transverse. Elytra about twice as long as head and 
prothorax combined, not twice as long as wide; base truncate^ 
shoulders scarcely rounded, sides subparallel to near the apex. 
Basal segment of abdomen with two oblique lines on each side, 
both commencing at the middle of the base, the first straight and 
terminating at the apex; the second curvilinear, terminating before 
the apex. Legs rather short and flat; tibiae dilating towards 
apex; claw joint of posterior tarsi as long as the others combined. 
Length 2 J, width 1 J mm. 
Bab. — Donnybrook, W.A. 
Proportionately broader than any species known to me. 
DeEMESTIDjE. 
Anthrenus socius, n.sp. 
Subparallel, subdepressed, shining. Black; undersurface 
piceous-black, margined with dull red at the base and sides of the 
prothorax, and at the apex of the abdominal segments (except 
the apical), legs also dull red; club of antennae and palpi ferru- 
ginous. Above covered with short blackish hair, very short on 
