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evident punctures of elytral intervals, and finer punctures of the 

 underside. Types in the British ]\Iuseum. 



Tkremenes socius, n.sp. 



Elongate, parallel, nitid-black; oral organs, clothing of tarsi, 

 and (in some examples) the underside of legs pitchy-red. 



Head densely and strongly punctate, clypeal suture arched and 

 well impressed, eyes large and rather prominent, antennae not 

 reaching the base of prothorax, the apical joints moderately 

 enlarged. Prothorax about as wide as long (3-5 m.m.), widest in 

 front of middle, subtruncate at base and apex; anterior angles 

 rather widely rounded and depressed, scarcely advanced, sides 

 gently converging backwards in a feeble curve, slightly sinuate 

 behind; posterior angles narrowly dentate and extended, sides and 

 base sulcate within the border, disc slightly gibbous in the middle 

 of the anterior portion, densely and clearly punctate, generally 

 with two fovese near the basal border, and without any medial 

 line. Scutellum curvilinearly triangular. Elytra wider than pro- 

 thorax at base, twice and one-half as long, sides subparallel, or 

 slightly widened behind in the female ; striate-punctate, the punc- 

 tures in the striae smaller and closer than in T. convexiusculus 

 Hope; the intervals distinctly punctate, and, towards the apex, a 

 little convex. Underside-structure as in T. convexiusculus, but 

 much more strongly punctured, especially on the abdomen. The 

 male is distinguished as in T. convexiusculus by the longer and 

 strongly curved front tibiae, with their tuft of golden hair at the 

 apex, which is absent from the female. Dimensions, 10-14 x 4-4-4 

 mm. 



Rah. — North Queensland: Coen (Hacker), Cairns(Lea), Cook- 

 town, Ayr. 



Several specimens examined, differ from the widely dispersed 

 T. convexiusculus Hope in the more strongly sculptured surface, 

 both above and beneath, in marked contrast to the almost impunc- 

 tate pronotum and abdomen of Hope's species. The lateral border 

 is also narrower, the front angles less depressed and more evident, 

 the hind angles sharper than in T. convexiusculus Hope {servulus 

 Pasc). Types in the Author's Coll. 



