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vittse; four brownish fascicles in front, the anterior pair being 

 very small, the posterior pair nearer the base than is usual in the 

 genus; base bisinuate, seen from above apparently with a feeble 

 transverse impression on each side. Scutellum small, indistinct. 

 Elytra wider than prothorax, the obliquity of the shoulders con- 

 tinuous with the sides of that segment; with dingy scales densest 

 about suture; ai< base of suture and partly on scutellum there is 

 a very distinct black fascicular elliptic patch of scales; 2nd inter- 

 stice with 3 fascicular tubercles, the basal one small, the middle 

 one larger than all on each elytron combined, the apical smaller 

 than basal and — to the naked eye — appearing as a white point; 

 3rd interstice with three small tubercles, only the basal one being 

 moderately distinct; punctate-striate, punctures moderately large, 

 subquadrate; interstices convex, about the width of punctures. 

 Undersurface with paler scales than upper. J^emora stout, biden- 

 tate; tibiae curved, not bisinuate; claw-joint squamose, moderatel}' 

 distinct. Length 2^, width l|mm. 



Hab. — Sydney. 



A small species, easily I'ecognisable on account of its large 

 black scutellar patch, large tubercle in middle of 3rd interstice 

 (in this respect resembling Macleayi) and simple tibife. 



Haplonyx bidentatus, Chev. — M. Chevrolat proposed this 

 name (Le ISTaturaliste, 1879, p. 60) in place of ruhiginosus, that 

 name having been already used in the subfamily b}' Mr. Pascoe. 

 I have specimens from New South Wales, South and West Aus- 

 tralia. It appears to be somewhat variable in the markings, as 

 I have specimens in which there is a broad sutural stripe opening 

 out into a large apical patch of whitish scales, and others without 

 any whitish scales on the elytra. Possibly Pascoe's layrrhatus 

 was described from such a specimen, but as he says " feynoribits 

 infra obsolete dentatis " it is possibly a distinct species, as all my 

 specimens of bidentatus have a rather large as well as a small 

 tooth on the femora ; in fresh specimens, however, they are 

 somewhat obscured by scales. H. dotatiis, Pasc, must also be 

 very close to this species. 

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