BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 625 



AULETES DENSUS, n.sp. 



Of a vei'y dark reddish- or purplish-brown, head and rostrum 

 darker; legs reddish-testaceous, four posterior femora more or less 

 tinged with brown, apical joints of tarsi blackish. Not very 

 sparsely clothed with very short greyish pubescence, longer at 

 sides of elytra than elsewhere. 



Very densely and strongly punctate, the punctures rather 

 larger on elytra than on head and prothorax. Eyes considerably 

 larger in ^ than in 5. Rostrum about once and one-third the 

 length of prothorax in ^, slightly longer in 9; noticeably increas- 

 ing to apex. Antenna} inserted at about one-fourth from base of 

 rostrum, two basal joints almost equal. Prothorax in ^ scarcely, 

 in (J slightly but noticeably transverse, sides very feebly increas- 

 ing to beyond the middle. Elytra with sutural stria moderately 

 distinct. Abdomen feebly transversely wrinkled. Length 24, 

 rostrum 4 mm. 



Hah. — Forest Reefs. 



Allied to calceatus, from which it may be distinguished by its 

 shorter rostrum, somewhat narrower and more uniformly punc- 

 tured elytra, and by its much darker colour. It appears also to be 

 allied to nigritarsis, Pascoe, but differs from the description of 

 that species in the rostrum, width of prothorax, puncturation of 

 elytra, &c. 



AuLETES CALCEATUS, Pasc. — Individuals of this species vary 

 from 2 to 4 1 mm. (including the rostrum). Mr. Pascoe describes 

 the rostrum as paler at apex than at base ; in several of my 

 specimens this is the case, in the others it is uniformly shining 

 black. There is usually a circular fringe of white hairs about 

 the scutellum, which is usually more distinct posteriorly. 

 The species occurs on Eucalypts; and I have it from Swan River, 

 Bunbury, and Albany. 



AuLETES TURBIDUS, Pasd. — I have taken a specimen of this 

 species at Mount Lofty, S.A., on a young Eucalypt. 



