722 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLKOPTERA, xii., 



A specimen (without locality-label) in the British Museum, 

 differs in having the conspicuous patches and stripe of scales 

 more of a golden-green, and the large tubercles somewhat 

 smaller. 



Leptops fumatus, n.sp. 



Black. Very densely clothed with scales varying from almost 

 snowy-white to smoky-brown; in addition with numerous long 

 setfe. 



nostrum moderately long; median carina distinct but densely 

 clothed throughout; sublateral sulci rather narrow and closed at 

 both ends; scrobes not very deep, slightly directed upwards pos- 

 teriorly. Antennae not very long but rather thin; none of the 

 joints of funicle transverse. Prothorax rather strongly trans- 

 verse, with rough vermiculate elevations, leaving a rather wide 

 irregular median excavation; near apex with a conspicuous, im- 

 pressed, irregular line, not quite meeting on upper surface, but 

 meeting on lower surface. Sciitellum round and distinct. Elytra 

 not much longer than wide, strongly convex, sides strongly 

 rounded and at widest fully twice the width of prothorax; with 

 numerous tubercles, mostly acutely conical and of moderate size; 

 sutui'e with seven pairs of tubercles, the largest acutel}' conical 

 and near summit of apical slope, the others mostly rounded; 

 third, fifth, and seventh interstices with acute tubercles; ninth 

 with a Catasarcus-\ike posthumeral tubercle. Prostei^num. un- 

 armed. Legs rather long; tibiae very feebly denticulate. Length, 

 Hi mm. 



//a6.-New South Wales: Broken Hill (Dr. Pulleine). 



In the 1906 table of the genus, would be placed in C, /; it is 

 about the size of L. niveus , but the spines are much more acute, 

 the clothing is very different, prothoracic excavation larger and 

 of different shape, rostrum stouter and very differently sculp- 

 tured; the other species of C,j are all very different; L. spiniger 

 is more acutely spined, and has the rostrum longer and otherwise 

 different. The scales are small and round, and so dense as to 

 almost everywhere conceal the derm; on the rostrum, antennae, 

 and legs they are nearly all white, but on the prothorax and 



