738 



NEW SPKCIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLKOPTERA, xii., 



at apex, the sutural spine longer and more acute than the other; 

 basal third with dense punctures of moderate size, the inter- 

 spaces witli small, dense ones, elsewhere with very small punc- 

 tures. Length, 25 mm. 



Hab.— Western Australia : Mullewa (Miss J. F. May). 



In some respects close to i/. simulans, but tips of elytra 

 bidentate, subhumeral markings partially clothed, and each 

 elytron with five glabrous lines. Each elytron, to the naked 

 eye, has a large dark sulihumeral patch, on which the clothing 

 is sparse in places, but the space between the patches is quite as 

 dark as the patches themselves; although, being densely clothed, 

 its colour is normally concealed; from each of the subglabrous 

 patches, three glabrous lines extend almost to the apex; the 

 suture and the mai^gin are also narrowly glabrous. On the pro- 

 thorax, the clothing has a somewhat loose appearance, but is 

 condensed into two fairly conspicuous oblique lines. 



Uracanthus inkrmis, n.sp. 



$. Reddish-castaneous. Densely but irregularly clothed with 

 pale pubescence, four hind femora conspicuously clothed along 

 middle of undersurface. 



Head with median line narrow and abruptly terminated before 

 base, the latter densely granulate-punctate ; clypeus densely 

 punctate, suture deep and semicircular. Antennae terminated a 

 short distance before apex of elytra, most of the joints very 

 feebly produced on one side at apex, eleventh about one-third 

 longer than tenth. Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, base 

 very little wider than apex, sides feebly dilated at middle; 

 strongly transversely corrugated, but the corrugations more or 

 less interrupted before middle, each side of middle with a small, 

 round nodule. Elytia very little (except near base not at all) 

 wider than prothorax, sides feebly diminishing in width to basal 

 fourth, thence parallel-sided to apex, where each is evenly 

 rounded; with several scarcely visible longitudinal elevations; 

 punctures very minute. Length ((J2), 22-26 mm. 



9 Differs in having somewhat shorter antennae, wider abdo- 

 men, and femora not densely clothed along undersurface. 



