nv AKTUIR M. LKA. 391 



Hafe.— New South Wales: Condobolin. in October (W. W. Froggatt) . 



On the under surface the clothing is somewhat longer than on the upper; on 

 the disc of the pronotuni it has a somewhat rusty appearance, across the middle 

 it forms a whitish line that is fairly distinct on the types, and on another speci- 

 men that was returned to Mr . Froggatt ; but as a similar line is to be seen on 

 occasional specimens of other species, it is probably not to be depended upon. 

 The distance between the eyes of the male is about e(iual to the width of the 

 clypeus, on the female it is slightly more. The species is close to D. puhescens, 

 but the prothorax has a short obli(|ue carina on each hind angle (somewhat as on 

 D. faseiatus, hut less distinct) the legs are darker, an<l the punctures are slightly 

 coarser: the sliape is more oblong than in U. pubicolUn and D. ichitei, and the 

 clothing is denser. 



DiTROPIDUS OKXICTLATrS, n . sp . 



c?. — Coppery-bronze; clypeus. lalnum, parts of antennae, base of tibiae and 

 usually parts of abdomen and elytral epipleurae red. Under surface moderately 

 clothed with white pubescence, more sparsely on u(>per. 



Head with a wide and rather shallow median line; punctures dense and rather 

 sharply defined, becoming confluent in places. Eyes widely separated. Pru- 

 th rax ahont twice as wide as the median length, ratlier strongly and evenly convex, 

 scutellar lobe small ; punctures rather small and not x'ery dense in middle, becoming 

 crowded and confluent, or substrigose, on sides. Eli/tra ol)long, with dense and 

 rather small but asperate punctures, the interspaces flnely rugose (almost shag- 

 reeaed), striae distinct on sides but scarcely traceable elsewliere. Legs moderately 

 stout, front ones scarcely longer than the hind ones. Lengfh (<?, 2), 3 — 4 mm. 



9. — Ditjfers in being rather more robust, head slightly smaller, the median line 

 deeper and almost foveate in the middle, antennae somewhat thinner, legs slightly 

 shorter, and in the abdomen. 



Hab. — Western Au-stralia: Geraldton (A. M. Lea). 



A sub-oblong species, not very densely but almost evenly clothed on the upper 

 surface. The third, fourth, and fifth joints of the antennae, and the lower parts 

 of the fii-st and second are reddish, the others being blackish ; the red of the clypeus 

 varies in extent and intensity; the sides of the three or four basal segments of 

 abdomen and the tip of the pygidium are usually, but not always, reddisli (the 

 variation is not sexual) ; the elytral epipleurae are of a rather bright red on some 

 specimens, obscure on others; the red of the tibiae sometimes extends to the tips 

 of the femora. The distance between the eyes is about equal to the width of the 

 clypeus on the male, rather more on the female. F)-om above the hind angles of 

 the prothorax appear to be acute, but from tlie sides they are seen to be rectangu- 

 lar; the sides are not evenly strigose, the punctures there being dense and fre- 

 quently confluent, but as tlie derm is partially concealed by the cloth- 

 ing, the surface at first glance appears c|uite conspicuously strigose. 

 On the apical segment of the abdomen ol' the male there is a vague 

 depression, but on the female this is increased to a large round fovea, 

 In general apjiearance it is fairly close to D. puhicollin but is somewhat narrower 

 and the eh'tra are not glabrous; from I), rji/nmrjptenis, to which it is closer in 

 shape, it differs markedly in the finer sculpture of both ]irothorax and elytra, as 

 well as in the latter being clothed; D. intonstis is much smaller and more roundtd; 

 T). irhitei is larger, more rounded, and with the fliiei' sculpture different. The 



