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of the following ones liglitly transverse. Prothorax lightly 

 transverse, sides rather strongly and evenly rounded, median 

 line narrow and distinct, towards sides somewhat vermiculate. 

 Sculelhim very small. Elytra not very much wider tlian pro- 

 thorax, sides almost parallel from behind slioulders (which are 

 oblique) to beyond the middle; with geminate rows of large, but 

 not closely adjacent, punctures; third, fifth, and seventh inter- 

 stices lightly elevated, and in places obtusely tuberculate. Legs 

 rather stout; front tibiae rather strongly curved and moderately 

 denticulate. Length, 10 mm. 



7/«6.— Queensland : Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 



The type being unique and in perfect condition, it has not 

 been abraded. In the 1906 table of the genus, it would be 

 referred to L. From L. globicollis, it differs in the elytra not 

 much wider than the prothorax at its widest, alternate inter- 

 stices much less conspicuously elevated, prothorax smaller, with 

 sides less strongly rounded, and rostrum shorter and differently 

 sculptured; L. corrugaliis and L. aryiUaceus have very different 

 elytra. The setae are mostly depressed, but on account of their 

 colour being paler than the scales, they are rather conspicuous; 

 on the tibiae, they are denser than elsewhere, not very long on 

 the upper surface of same, but decidedly longer on their under- 

 surface, where they are almost as long as on the muzzle. The 

 sublateral sulci and the scrobes are greatly obscured by the 

 clothing, but the former appear to be subtriangular, and to be 

 open posteriorly; the latter appear to be very shallow posteriorly 

 and to be directed below the lower edge of the eyes. There is a 

 fairly distinct, but obtuse, tubercle on each shoulder, and another 

 on the fifth interstice near summit of apical slope, but the elytra 

 miyht almost fairlv be regarded as non-tuberculate. 



Leptops scaber, n.sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with dark brown scales; with short, 

 stout setae, not vei'y dense on prothorax and elytra, but becoming 

 denser on rostrum and femora, and much denser and longer on 

 tibiae. 



Head with a fairly large interocular fovea. Rostrum long, 



