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(J. Prothorace qiiam longiori vix latiori quam elytra vix angus- 

 tiori. 



9. Prothorace quam longiori sat latiori, quam elytra sat angus- 

 tiori. [Long. 21-3;,, lat. 1-1^ lines. 



This species is a typical Polypltrades nearest perhaps to F. 

 nitidilabris, Germ., but very different from it. It is exceptionally 

 prettily marked among its usually dull-coloured congeners. A 

 well-marked example has the head mottled with fuscous and 

 whitish, the prothorax with fuscous and coppery, the elytra with 

 fuscous-coppery and cinereous, the underside with fuscous and 

 coppery, and the legs with fuscous and whitish scales. On the 

 elytra, regarding fuscous as the groundcolour, the cinereous 

 scales form a few small irregularly placed spots, and the coppery 

 scales run in irregular lines down the interstices, that on the 

 suture being the most continuous and conspicuous. 



S. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula ; on Casuarifia. 



POLYPHRADES INCONSPICUUS, Sp.nOV. 



(J. Ovalis ; minus latus ; fuscus vel piceus, squamis albidis 

 (supra aliis fuscis plus minusve crebre intermixtis) et setis. 

 brevissimis suberectis dense vestitus, nonnuUorum exem- 

 plorum tibiis tarsisque plus minusve rufescentibus ; rostro 

 quam caput vix longiori, supra sub squamas 3-carinato, ad 

 basin leviter (fere ut P. nitidilahris^ transversim impresso ; 

 oculis ovalibus depressis subtiliter granulatis (quam P. 

 nitidilabris magis depressis magis subtiliter granulatis) ; 

 autennis modicis, scapo oculi marginem posticum attingenti, 

 funiculi articulo basali quam 2"'^ crassiori et sesquiloQgiori ; 

 prothorace quam elytra tertia parte angustiori, antice vix 

 angustato, quam longiori fere dimidia parte latiori, modice 

 punctulato-ruguloso (baud niulto aliter quam P. nitidilabris), 

 lateribus sat rotundatis; scutello fere nullo; elytris punctulato 

 striatis, interstitiis sat planis, basi hand maiginata quam 

 prothoracis basis vix latiori, sutura paullo convexa, sed haud 

 distincte carinata. 



