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tra ; upper surface, except in the middle, irregular and tubercled ; 

 each side with two teeth, the anterior the larger; down the 

 middle is an abbreviated impressed line; the scutellum is 

 smoothish, and with an impressed point at the apex and a line 

 at the base ; the elytra at the shoulder are brown and somewhat 

 foveolated, and have a widish tuft of hairs, with two or three 

 smaller tufts ; the general surface is indistinctly foveolated, and 

 there are two indistinct paler bands across each ; the tip of each 

 is somewhat trimucronated and rather thickly ciliated ; the an- 

 tenna? are punctured with brownish, the third joint is somewhat 

 arcuated; the femora of fore-legs are considerably thickened, 

 somewhat crested above; the tibiae are incurved, and have a 

 spine on the lower side near the tip ; the sides of the body be- 

 neath are somewhat ochraceous. 



Length 8^ lines. 



Hab. E. Indies. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Sympheletes subtuberculatus, n. s. 



S. griseo-cinereus ; thorace medio supra subtuberculato ; elytris basi 

 tuberculis paucis parvis nudis ; antennis postice subciliatis. 



Covered with ashen-grey hairs ; the margin of the elytra with 

 a palish mark behind the shoulder and an obscure irregular band 

 behind the middle, and with a few small tubercles arranged in 

 two lines ; thorax in the middle above with a few slight tubercles 

 covered with hairs. 



Length 7.J lines. 



Hab. Australia. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



There is a variety of this, tinged with an ochreous hue, in which 

 the transverse band of the elytra is quite invisible ; the tubercles 

 of the elytra also are nearly concealed among the hair. 



Sympheletes humeralis, n. s. 



S. griseus, ochraceo punctatus ; elytris subtuberculatis, tuberculis 



nudis, humeris nigro-fusco plagiatis, apice truncatis ; capite tho- 



raceque punctatis. 



Rather thickly covered with greyish hairs, and varied with 

 small ochreous spots ; head rather deeply punctured ; antennae 

 cinereous, joints behind rather thickly bordered with blackish 

 hairs ; thorax punctured ; elytra with the base more thinly fur- 

 nished with grey hairs, and a deep brown naked patch below the 

 shoulder ; the surface of each elytron with several small scattered 

 brown tubercles, the apex truncated ; under side rather thickly 

 covered with yellowish-grey hairs, the posterior margins of ab- 

 dominal segments being thickly ciliated. 



Length 7J-8J lines. 



Hab. Australia (Port Essington). (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 

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