426 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. By Arthur M. Lka. Part IX. (Plate xvii.) Family STAPHYLINID^. ffiDICHIRUS OENICULATUS, 11. Sp. Head, prothorax, and mesosternum red; elytra, abdomen, and metastenium black: appendages (knees infuscated) flavous. With rather stiff scattered setae or hairs. Head somewhat wider than long, gently convex, with fairly large, scattered punctures. Antenna thin, extending almost to tip of elytra. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, slightly wider than head, widest at about the apical fourth, thence oblique to near base, which is rounded ; with moderately numerous distinct punctures, most of which are in irregular longitudinal series. Elytra shorter and narrower than prothorax, sides rounded, apex incurved to middle; Avith punctures the size of those on prothorax, but more evenly distributed. Abdomen long, and tipped with two acute spines; four basal segments with dense and coarse punctures, except at their tips, the two apical segments with smaller punctures. Legs rather long, fi'ont tarsi strongly inflated. Length 7, to apex of elytra 2i mm. Ilab. — Victoria : Timboon(H. W. Davey). Close to (E. rubricollis, and (E. tricolor; from the former, dis-tinguished by its much paler legs and i-ed head; and, from the latter (to Avhich it is closer), by its black elytra. ScoP.EUS ROTUNOicoLLis Macl.(now SuNius). I have recently examined the type of this species. It is a S'linius, close to *S'. brevicollis, but slightly smaller, and with the markings on the elytra of one specimen confined to the basal third; and, on the other, to the basal two-thirds; the antennae
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