632 NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



straight, flat, parallel-sided, not or scarcely twice as long as wide; 

 coarsely punctate. Scape passing muzzle; club large. I'rothorax 

 granulate, punctate; base not twice the width of apex; moderately 

 elongate scales regularly distributed except at sides, where they 

 combine to form two oblique vittee. Scutdkim small, semicircular. 

 Elytra slightly longer than wide, a circular patch about scutellum 

 of black subfasciculate scales, surrounded except apically with 

 white scales; a few white scales scattered about near apex, sides 

 and base, elsewhere nude; punctures large, quadrate, largest at 

 sides; interstices granulate, near suture as wide as punctures, 

 much narrower at sides. Under surface and leijs moderately 

 densely clothed with white subelongate scales. Femora rather 

 thick, unidentate; tibipe bisinuate, basal sinus twice as long as 

 apical; claw-joint squamose. Length 4, width 2| mm. 



//rt6.— Hillgrove, N.S.W. (Dr. C. Hardcastle). 



Differs from centralis, besides colour and clothing, in being less 

 convex, elytra narrower towards apex, rostrum shorter and elytral 

 punctures stronger; from the description of cionoides in having the 

 rostrum short, not at all cylindrical, and the prothorax not three 

 times wider at base than apex. 



Haplonyx sordidus, n.sp. 



Reddish-brown, antennse and claw-joint paler; scutellum, head, 

 club, under surface and coxae piceous. Head large, minutely 

 granulate and punctate; sparse whitish scales irregularly clustered 

 together; a feeble impression between eyes. Rostrum as in the 

 preceding. Scape considerably passing muzzle; 1st joint of funicle 

 short, perfectly triangular, not much longer than 2nd; club large. 

 Prothorax not once and one-half wider at base than apex; Imse 

 bisinuate, thickened; scutellar lobe truncate; apex feebly emar- 

 ginate in the middle; punctate and granulate; straw-coloured 

 scales feebly scattered about the base in the middle, and forming 

 three irregular vittfe on sides, a few darker scales in the middle. 

 Scutellum feebly transverse, punctate. Elytra with feeble traces 

 of three fasciae across middle, somewhat more densely squamose 

 at base and apex; punctures large, subquadrate, scarcely larger 



