636 KEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



more elongate than in 9; funicle distinctly six-jointed, 1st joint 

 obtriangular, scarcely as long as 2nd-3rd combined, 4th-6th trans- 

 verse; club moderately elongate. Prothorax not twice as wide at 

 base as apex, a feebly traceable median line, scales at side some- 

 what paler than on disc ; ape;s feebly emarginate, base bisinuate, 

 marked with paler scales. Scutellum transverse, subcordate. 

 Elytra broad, not much wider than prothorax, shoulders very 

 feebly produced; distinctly but not deeply striate; pale rounded 

 scales in the strite but not regularly between punctures, being 

 more noticeable at apex, base and middle ; interstices broad, 

 scarcely convex, much wider than striaj; two feeble interrupted 

 fasciae across middle caused by the scales there being a little 

 darker and smaller. Under surface and legs moderately densely 

 clothed with white rounded scales, denser on sterna, at the sides 

 of which they become ochreous. Legs stout; femora unidentate; 

 tibise emarginate at base, from emargination to apex bordered 

 with small blunt teeth about sixteen in number, just visible with 

 a Coddington lens; tarsi broad, three basal joints almost equally 

 padded with pale setse; claw-joint very small, scarcely ^isible 

 from abo^e, not protruding beyond tarsal pad. Length 6, width 

 4; range of variation 5-7 mm. 



Hah. — Swan River. Beaten from young Eucal3fpts on which 

 were numerous specimens of Brachyscelis strombylosa. 



A broad depressed species with peculiar tibiae, the small teeth 

 mentioned being on the lower and outer side; the antennae of $ 

 differ from those of 9 (oi' perhaps vice versa) in being longer and 

 thinner; the scape, however (owing to the prolongation of the 

 rostrum), only passes the muzzle in the same proportion. From 

 H. ( AoUes) ruhiginosus it differs (besides size and width) in having 

 the scales on the elytral interstices packed five deep, except 

 towards base, where they are denser; in that species they do not 

 appear to be more than three deep and are less regular in shape; 

 ruhiginosus has also large fluted snowy-white scales (similar to 

 those on abdomen) between puncture and puncture, but they are 

 very easily lost; out of forty-two specimens I have under examina- 

 tion (all collected within the past two years) but seven are perfect 



