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cannot describe their arraDgement very exactly ; but I can say 

 that the fulvous scales are the prevalent ones and that the whitish 

 scales are condensed on the sides of the prothorax and elytra. 



8. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula. 



POLYPHRADES LiETUS, Sp.nOV. 



(J. Sat breviter ovalis; piceus, antennis tarsisque rufescentibus; 

 squamis fuscis albidisque (his in exemplis recentibus fere 

 plurabeis vel etiam pallide viridibus) intermixtis vestitus ; 

 rostro a capite sat distincto, quam caput vix longiori, supra 

 3-carinato, lamina apicali sat magna ; oculis ovalibus minus 

 subtiliter (fere ut F. nitidilahris) granulatis, sat depressis ; 

 antennis modicis, scapo oculum paullo superanti, faniculi 

 articulo basali quam 2"^ fere duplo (hoc quam 3"^ hand multo) 

 longiori ; prothorace quam elytra sat angustiori, antice sat 

 angustato, quam longiori tertia parte latiori, sub squamas 

 crasse rnguloso, lateribus sat rotundatis ; scutello minuto ; 

 elytris punctulato-striatis, iuterstitiis sat latis sat planis, basi 

 haud marginata quam prothoracis basis vix latiori, sutura 

 leviter convexa nullo modo carinata. 



9. Elytris magis late ovalibus. [Long. IJ-lf, lat. j line. 

 The principal characters of this species .are — form short, oval, 



antennal scape reaching back a little beyond the eye (nearly to 

 the prothorax), upper surface with more attractive markings than 

 is usual in the genus, antennae and tarsi of a bright ferruginous 

 tone. In a well-marked specimen the prevailing scales are those 

 of a whitish colour, with a pale green (not at all metallic) or 

 leaden tint, and the fuscous scales form the following markings 

 (which, however, are by no means sharply defined) — two large 

 blotches on the vertex, two vitta) on the disc of the prothorax, a 

 very suffused and irregular space on each elytron occupying the 

 greater part of the 2nd and 3rd interstices. I have submitted an 

 example of this insect to Mr. Pascoe, who returned it as unknown 

 to him. 



S. Australia ; Eyre's Peninsula. 



