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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xii. 



9. Differs in having antennae terminated before apex of elytra, 

 with their serrations less pronounced, elytra longer and wider, 

 with smaller punctures about base, abdomen larger, and legs 

 somewhat shorter, with thinner tarsi. 



llah. — Tasmania: Sprent (A. M. Lea). 



Uracauthus mafejicus, n.sp. 

 The widely glabrous, median portion of pronotum, without 

 transverse or irregular corrugations, and wide, immaculate elytra, 

 each conspicuously bispinose at apex, readily distinguish this 

 from all previously described species. The elytra are uniformly 

 clothed throughout, except that, on each side of the scutellum, 

 the pubescence is slightly longer and more brightly coloured than 

 elsewhere; the glabrous median space on the pronotum is about 

 twice the width of the lateral ones; there is a cluster of coarse 

 punctures on each side of the clypeus, but they are normally 

 almost concealed. The clothing of the undersurface of the four 

 hind femora of the male is rather denser than on the female, but 

 is not conspicuously different as on so many species of the genus. 



