BV A. M. LEA. 733 



without much of the clothing as well) that it is inadvisable to 

 describe them. 



POLYPHRADES APICALIS, n.Sp. 



Black, tarsi reddish, other parts of appendages very obscurely 

 diluted witli red. Densely clothed with light brown scales, with 

 a few spots of darker scales, but becoming ashen on undersurface 

 and legs; with rather dense, more or less depressed setae. 



Rostrum short and wide, on an almost even plane with head, 

 with a narrow median line continued on to head; inter-antennary 

 space wide; apical plate triangular and densely punctate. Scape 

 curved, stout at apex; first joint of funicle as long as second and 

 third combined, fourth to seventh lightly transverse. Prothorax 

 (at widest) almost twice as wide as long, sides rather strongly 

 and evenly rounded ; with dense, round granules, traceable 

 before abrasion. Elytra subovate, sides i-ather strongly rounded, 

 base no wider than base of prothorax; with regular rows of large 

 punctures, appearing much smaller before abrasion. Claws 

 almost equal and distinctly separated only at tip. Length, 6 mm. 



^«6.— Queensland (Henry Hacker's No. 952). 



The second and third strife (from the suture) near the apex 

 are deflected, at right angles, to become the first and second 

 lateral ones, without interruption of any sort; on most species of 

 the genus, there is a costate elevation there (as on P. longipentds) 

 or at least the continuation of an interstice interposed, as it 

 were, between the sutural and lateral striie, and by this character 

 alone (although there are others) it may be distinguished from 

 all the other species from Queensland. The head and rostrum, 

 from behind, appear to be on an even plane, but, from the side, 

 there is seen to be a slight depression at their junction; the 

 rostrum is scarcely longer than in P. brevirostris (a species it has 

 little in common with), but the inter-antennary space is less 

 conspicuously dilated posteriorly. Although not a strikingly 

 distinct species, I know of no really closely allied one. The 

 darker markings on the prothorax are mostly basal; on the elytra, 

 they are mostly feeble spots starting from punctures in the 

 strije. 



