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minutas rubras ferentibus ; eljtris leviter striatis, striis 

 puncturis sat magnis instructis, interstitiis subconvexis. 



[Long. 5-51 lat. 2-2^ lines. 

 In treating of the genus I have mentioned the characters 

 sufficiently at length to render a further specific description 

 unnecessary. 



Victoria ; Alpine district ; under a stone near the summit of 

 one of the higher mountains. 



(RH YPAROSOMIN^. ) 

 Dysostines glaber, sp.no v. 



Nitidus ; glaber (antennis pedibusque setosis exceptis) ; niger- 

 rimus, antennis rufo-picescentihus ; maris prothorac e quam 

 elytra vix angustiori, his fere a basi retrorsum angustatis ; 

 feminse prothorace quam elytra sat angustiori, his late ovali- 

 bus ; rostro quam ad apicem latiori fere duplo longiori, supra 

 arcuato vix manifeste carinato, dupliciter minus punctulato; 

 capite inter oculos longitudinaliter foveato, dupliciter (postice 

 sat crebre)punctulato; antennarura funiculi articulis basalibus 

 2 sat elongatis ceteris moniliformibus ; prothorace subgloboso, 

 postice quam antice latiori, subtilissirae canaliculato, sparsira 

 fortiter punctulato (puncturis nonnullis parvis intermixtis) ; 

 scutello minuto ; elytris fortiter punctulato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis sparsim punctulatis, humeris subprominulis lateribus 

 mox pone basin dilatatis ; pedibus valde robustis, tibiis 

 anterioribus 4 intus dente magno obtuso armatis et infra 

 denticulatis et ad apicem valde arcuatis (posticis maris intus 

 longe ciliatis), posticis maris ante apicem intus subito angus- 

 tatis et ad apicem fortiter introrsum curvatis et calcare valido 

 armatis, feminse ad apicem dilatatis ; prosterno inter coxas 

 anticas quam antennarum clava baud angustiori ; segmento 

 basali ventrali (maris) late concavo subinsequali, feminse vix 

 concavo subinaequali. 



Variat prothorace rufo. [Long. 3-3|, lat lyVll ^i^^s 



