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with long white pubescence, continued on to base and (very 

 feebly) along the sides of elytra; under surface (except at sides) 

 highly polished and almost glabrous. 



Elytra with regular and very distinct, but not dense or coarse, 

 punctures ; prothorax with somewhat similar punctures, but 

 partially concealed by clothing. Sterna punctate at sides. 

 Abdomen rather coarsely but somewhat irregularly punctate, 

 the basal segment being impunetate across middle (except at base 

 and apex), and the other segments indistinctly punctate in 

 middle; lamellse distinctly punctate. Length 1 J mm. 



//a6.~Tamworth, N.S.W.; Geraldton, W.A. 



Like bicolor, from which it is distinguished by its very evident 

 punctures and by its clothing. The specimens from Geraldton 

 are smaller (1^ mm. only) than those from Tam worth, and the 

 tarsi are almost piceous, but I do not think that they represent a 

 distinct species. 



Skrangium M/Estum. n.sp. 



Briefly ovate, strongly convex, moderately polished. Dark 

 brownish-black ; legs brown ; tarsi, tibise (wholly or in part), 

 antennse and palpi testaceous; epipleurae and apical segments 

 piceous-brown. Upper surface with long, straggling, yellowish 

 pubescence, almost absent in middle; flanks of sterna and the legs 

 finely pubescent. 



Elytra just perceptibly punctate; epipleurre distinctly excavated 

 to outer margin to receive hind femora. Sterna impunetate in 

 middle. Abdomen moderately strongly punctate; a transverse 

 impunetate space in middle of basal segment. Length 1 J mm. 



Hah. — Swan River, Geraldton, W.A. 



Very close to bicolor, but the pube:scence longer, more evenly 

 distributed and darker, and with the elytra feebly (but noticeably) 

 punctate.' The colour of the derm also is not of the intense black 

 so characteristic of that species. In the seven specimens under 

 examination a central space occupying from behind scutellum to 

 the apical half of elytra is almost entirely devoid of clothing. 



