BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 429 



The clothing of the elytra is unusually dense and is of a brick- 

 red colour. 



Tyrt^osus inermis, n.sp. 



Dark reddish-brown, antennae and claw-joints paler. Densely 

 and almost uniformly (except that they are paler on the sterna 

 and absent on the apical half of rostrum) clothed with soft sooty 

 scales, feebly variegated with sooty white ones. 



Head with dense concealed punctures; eyes large, but not very 

 close together. Rostrum short, wide and almost straight, sides 

 very feebly incurved to middle; basal two-fifths coarsely punctate, 

 elsewhere shining and (except along middle) very distinctly punc- 

 tate. Scape inserted almost in exact middle of rostrum; 1st joint 

 of funicle stouter but no longer than 2nd, the others transverse. 

 Frothorax strongly transverse, sides strongly rounded; with dense, 

 round, clearly-cut but concealed punctures; median carina absent. 

 Elytra slightly and not suddenly wider than prothorax and about 

 twice and one-half as long; striate-punctate, punctures large but 

 more or less concealed ; interstices convex, the width of but 

 apparently much wider than striae. Punctures of metasternal 

 episterna continuous throughout; 3rd and 4th abdominal segments 

 each with one row. Feinora edentate. Length 4, rostrum |; 

 width 2. mm. 



Hab. — INorth Queensland (Macleay Mus.). 



The clothing, except on the tarsi, is nowhere setose in cha- 

 racter. The scape is inserted almost in the middle of the rostrum 

 and the prothoracic carina is entirely absent. 



Tyrt^osus corpulentus, n.sp. * 



Brownish-black, antennae not much paler, elytra reddish-brown. 

 Prothorax with a mouse-coloured scale in each puncture, and with 

 a few small spots of dingy whitish scales; elytra with mouse- 

 coloured scales and with two fasciae of white (bordered or inter- 

 mingled with pale ochreous) scales. Under surface with large 

 soft white scales intermingled on the apical segments with darker 

 ones; legs mostly with white scales. Head and basal half of 

 rostrum not very densely squamose. 



