U\ THOiNJAS (i. SLOAXK. 4^9 



marked: sides lightly aiupliate behind anterior angles, almost 

 straight on posterior two-thirds: base emai-ginate above peduncle: 

 basal angles obtuse but marked; lateral margins wide, depiessed: 

 l)order a little upturned. Klytra mucli wider than piothorax 

 (6 X 3'3 mm.), subdepressed, declivous to sides: apex with outer 

 angles marked: apical truncature lightly and widely bisinuate: 

 striae simple; interstices nitid, a row of minute punctures along 

 every one (under a lens); anterior puncture of third at anterior 

 fourth, posterior puncture at apical fifth. Length, lO'O: breadth, 

 3'.'j mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Kuranda (Doddi. Unique in Coll. 81oane. 



Allied to, and resembling X. tweedeiisis Blackb , but diftering 

 by prothorax more depressed, lateral margins wider, sides straight 

 posteriorly and more strongly narrowed to apex, basal angles far 

 less sharply marked, base much more strongly bisinuate on each 

 side; elytra with third interstice bipunctate, abdomen in 9 with 

 fewer seta? at apex. 



XANTHOPHa:A DODDi, n.sp. 



iSarrow, elongate, depressed. Head large, convex : prothorax 

 narrow, parallel, widest at base : elytra subparallel on sides, 

 widest behind middle, truncate at base, widely margined, striate; 

 interstices lightly convex, first interstice with a short, lightly 

 impressed striole at base, third unipunctate about apical fifth : 

 abdomen in ^ with one, in 9 with two setae on each side of apex : 

 anterior tarsi in ^ a little dilatate, clothed beneath with ashen- 

 coloured squamae- squamae arranged in two mesial rows, with a 

 fringe on outer side on three basal joints, fourth joint bilobate, 

 and clothed beneath (also in posterior tarsi) with a cinereous 

 hair-pad. Brownish-red; elytra darker than head and prothorax, 

 apex of elytra a lighter and brighter red; undersurface of body 

 and femora testaceous, of head and prothorax reddish. 



Head wider than prothorax (1-5 mm. across eyes), obliquely- 

 narrowed behind eyes, iievigate; front lightly impressed on each 

 side; antennae with thiee basal joints glabrous. Prothorax sub- 

 quadrate (1*4 X 1 '?> mm.), nitid, uiore or less transversely striolate 

 especially towards sides; apex subemarginate; anterior angles sub 



