BY E. W. FERGUSON. 229 



PSEUDONO'I'OXOPHES LKMMUS PaSC. 



TahiNn'HKs leninnis Pase., Inc. rit., p. 16; Notnnojilies id. Lea, 

 lor. cit., p. 112. 



9, Small, ovate. Black; densely clothed with brown, prothorax 

 trivittate with white, elytra witli a short vitta at each shoulder and 

 an irreii'nlar transverse bar at eacli side about commenfement of 

 declivity; sides maculate. 



Head and rostrum as iu genus. Head with scattered seta^ on 

 forehead, arising from punctures not from dehnite granules, sliglit 

 traces of granules towards sides. Prothorax (2 x 2-5 mm.), with 

 n subajncal, transverse impression, and rather feebly impressed 

 median line; set with separate, round granules, absent over mesial 

 and sublateral vitta". and obsolete on the sides. Elytra (5 x 3-5) 

 with rows of fairly regular, small, open fovea3; interstices granu- 

 late, tlie granules small and obsolete near base, })ecoming more 

 jirominent and snhconical near declivity, most conspicuous on the 

 second, barely traceable on tlie more lateral interstices. Beneatli 

 convex, without impressions. Dimensions: 9, 8 x 3-5 nnn. 



The a))o\e description is of a female from Geraldton, in my own 

 collection. 1 think I am right in referring it to P. lemmns. It 

 agrees with the cotype of T. lemmus Pasc, in the Macleay 

 Museum, on wliich specimen I liave the following notes, made in 

 comparison with P. dumosus. ]More densely clothed, head with 

 granules not tracea])le. elytra with granules obsolete anteriorly, 

 less prominent posteriorly, fovea' more transverse, no interfoveal 

 granules. 



Amale(7 x 3mm.) in the Soutli Australian Museum also belongs 

 to this species: compared with my specimen(9), it has the granules 

 rather larger and more evident, beneath it is more flattened, with 

 the intermediates shortei-, and the Hfth segment large, and witliout 

 a definite excavation, the apical third heing only very feebly 

 depressed. 



Apart tVoni ditferences in clothing, which may conceivahly be 

 due to ahrasion. P. lewmus is sulficiently differentiated I'rom P. 

 dumosus hv the non-uranulate head, the slightlv more transverselv 



