280 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



9. Elytris inagis late ovalibus. [Long. lJ-2, lat. yVto ^i^^®- 



This little species is more distinctly marked with a pattern than 

 is usual in the genus. In a fresh bright example the underside is 

 densely clothed with white scales, and the up[)er surface is mottled 

 with fuscous and whitish scales in almost equal proportions, so 

 distributed, however, that the head and rostrum and the sides of 

 the prothorax and elytra are almost white, that the colours run 

 in somewhat indistinct vittse on the disc of the prothorax, and 

 that there is a short more or less distinct white vitta on either 

 side of the scutellum, while the femora are ringed with white, the 

 wiiite scales being apparently the first to disappear under abrasion. 

 Specimens in inferior preservation have few of the white 

 markings. 



Victoria ; sent by Mr. French. 



POLYPHRADES PERPLEXUS, Sp.nOV. 



(J. Breviter ovalis ; piceus, tibiis rufescentibus ; squamis fulvis 



albidisque intermixtis vestitus ; rostro a capite vix distincto. 



qnam caput vix longiori, latissimo, quam latiori vix longiori, 



planato, sub squamas in medio cariuato, lamina nitida apicali 



parva minus distincta ; oculis ovalibus sat subtiliter (quam P. 



nitidilahris magis subtiliter) granulatis, depressis ; antennis 



modicis, scapo oculi marginem posticum attingenti, funiculi 



articulo basali brevi quam 2"^ (et hoc quam 3"^) parum 



longiori ; prothorace quam elytra horum quinta parte angus- 



tiori, antice parum angustato, quam longiori tertia parte 



latiori, sub squamas sat sparsim minus fortiter vix rugulose 



punctulato, lateribus sat arcuatis; scutello minuto; elytris sat 



fortiter (sub squamas minus perspicue) punctulato-striatis, 



interstitiis sat planis, basi hand marginata quam prothoracis 



basis baud latiori, sutura baud carinata. 



9. Latet. [Long. 2, lat. 1 line. 



The short oval form and very wide rostrum not very distinct 



from the head and with its a})ical plate small and little conspicuous 



are characters that in combination distinguish this species very 



readily. The scales on my example are a little rubbed, so that I 



