724 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, XU., 



which, however, they differ in many details. The scales are of 

 almost even density throughout; on the elytra, the sette are 

 more numerous on the tubercles and the apical slope than else- 

 where; on the pronotum, many of the granules are supplied 

 with two or more setae; the granules themselves are seldom con- 

 joined, so that the surface does not appear to be vermiculate; on 

 the elytra, the suture has two irn^gular rows of small tubercles, 

 of which the largest (but still small) are a conjoined pair near 

 summit of apical slope; there are fairly numerous tubercles on 

 the third, fifth, and seventh interstices, but the intervening ones 

 are also supplied with a few, and there is an obtuse Catasarcus- 

 like posthumeral tubercle on the ninth; altogether there are 

 about thirty tubercles on each elytron. 



Leptops graniventris, n.sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with small, round, muddy-brown or 

 chocolate-brown scales; in addition, with numerous short, dark 

 setse. 



Head with interocular fovea distinct. Rostrum not very 

 long, sides rather strongly incurved to middle. Antennse com- 

 paratively short and stout, but no joint of funicle transverse. 

 Frothorax strongly transverse, sides irregularly rounded, base 

 gently incurved at middle; sui'face vermiculate. Scute! him small 

 and subtriangular. Elytra subovate, much wider than prothorax; 

 with rows of large punctures; each elytron with three con- 

 spicuously elevated lines, of which one commences on the 

 shoulder as a distinct tubercle. Abdomen with numerous small, 

 shining, setiferous granules on all segments; a few also on meta- 

 sternum. Legs not very long, tibia? not visibly denticulate. 

 Length, 8^-ll|mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cunnamulla (H. Hardca.stle). 



On account of the humeral tubercles, the elytra cannot be 

 regarded as non-tuberculate; consequently, in the 1906 table, 

 the species would be associated with those referred to L, from 

 all of which it is very different On the elytra, the setae are 

 rather dense on the suture and on the elevated interstices, but 

 sparse in between; on the tibiae, they are considerably denser 



