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punctures rather large and coarse, but this sculpture is rendered 

 indistinct both by the pubescence and by a multitude of small 

 obscure granules scattered indiscriminately over the striae and 

 interstices. This species seems to be near^l. pubescens, Pasc, but 

 the prothorax of that insect is described as " coarsely punctured," 

 whereas the prothorax of this species appears quite impunctulate 

 except under a strong lens ; it is infinitely less strongly punctured 

 than the prothorax of A. bituherculatus, Pasc, which its author 

 calls merely "sparsely punctured." 

 Victoria ; on the higher Alps. 



Athemistus torridus, sp.nov. 



Ferrugineus ; opacus ; pube subtillissima sericea dilutiori (hie 

 illic squamis piliformibus cinereis submaculatim variegata) 

 vestitus ; capite leviter, prothorace sat profunde, crasse sat 

 sparsim punctulatis ; hoc tuberculis 3 discoidalibus (trans- 

 versim positis) ornatis, lateribus pone medium dente sat 

 valido instructis ; elytris ad apicem rotundatis, seriatim 

 verrucosis, postice 2-tuberculatis. [Long. 3, lat. \^jj lines. 



The smallest species of the genus yet described. The two 

 posterior tubercles of the elytra (one on each elytron, about half 

 way down the posterior declivity) distinguish it from all its 

 congeners except hituherculatus, Pasc, and ceihiops^ Pasc. From 

 the latter of these it is distinguished by its colour and by the row 

 of three ill-defined tubercles on the prothorax forming a con- 

 tinuous line with the lateral tubercles, and from the former by its 

 much smaller size and the more strongly defined (almost 

 spiniform) lateral tubercles of its prothorax. 



Queensland ; Cape York ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



Symphiletes dentipes, sp.nov. 



(J. Nitidus \ minus pubescens ; piceus, pedibus rufescentibus ; 

 capite pilis elongatis albidis sat sparsim vestito; tibiis anticis 

 subtus, intermediis extus, posticis intus, dense pallide hirsutis, 

 segmentis ventralibus postice ciliis pallidis perlongis ornatis ; 

 antennis supra pube subtili grisea dense vestitis, subtus dense 



