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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
P E D I L I D M. 
Macratria intermedia, n.sp. 
(J. Narrow, subparallel, subdepressed, shining. Head, pro- 
thorax and imdersurface dark, or brownish-red; elytra dark red, 
becoming piceous at apex; legs and antennae testaceous, apical 
joint of antennae darker; abdominal segments paler than sterna. 
Above densely clothed with silky yellowish pubescence, longest 
on elytra (when seen from behind apparently in lines); on the 
undersurface the pubescence is much shorter and denser; the legs 
are somewhat densely pubescent. Head minutely punctate, pro- 
thorax more densely and strongly; elytra seriate-punctate, the 
punctures shallow, interstices minutely punctate; undersurface — 
except the flanks of the mesosternum which are distinctly — - 
minutely punctate. 
Head longer than wide, almost truncate at base; eyes large; 
antennae slender, reaching intermediate coxae, 1st joint about as 
long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd as long as and thicker than 3rd, 
3rd slightly longer than 4th, 4th-8th subequal, 9th-10th slightly 
longer, 11th as long as 7th-10th combined. Prothorax much 
longer than wide, and wider than the head, widest near the apex; 
apex rounded, base margined and truncate. Elytra very gradually 
narrowing to near the apex, shoulders moderately rounded, each 
elytron separately rounded at apex; suture slightly raised except 
at base, where it is feebly depressed. Metasternum deeply sulcate, 
apical segment of abdomen shallowly emarginate at apex. Legs 
long; femora thickened, the anterior their entire length, inter- 
mediate for the apical two-thirds, posterior for the apical 
half; tibiae straight, longer than tarsi, minutely spurred at apices, 
posterior spurs the longest; basal joint of posterior tarsi nearly 
twice as long as the following combined, the four anterior little 
more than half as long. Length 3 J, width § mm. 
Differs in being somewhat larger (3 J mm.) and darker, in 
having the piceous colour more advanced on the elytra (leaving 
only the base dark red), apical joint of antennae only as long as 
