BY A. M. LEA. 657 



this character, regarded as a very important one, was not even 

 mentioned by Pascoe. 



From //. viridivaria, it differs in having the head and ros- 

 trum narrower, elytra parallel-sided, and the setae very much 

 shorter and less erect. 



Subfamily Leptopsides. 

 Uroleptops, n.g. 



Jleail fairly large. Eyes rather small, ovate, widely separat- 

 ed. Rostrum rather stout, shorter than prothorax. Scrobes 

 deep (except posteriorly), commencing at apex, curved round 

 and vanishing before lower edge of eyes. Antennae moderate- 

 ly long ; funicle with all joints longer than wide ; club elliptic 

 ovate, moderately long. Prothorax moderately transverse, 

 base truncate, ocular lobes distinct but not very prominent. 

 Sc N t ellum. a.hsent. Elyf rn owa,te, tuberculate. Abclo?)? en with 

 distinct and deep sutures, but the one between first and second 

 segments curved and rather feeble in middle. Legs moderate. 



Fairly close to Leptops, near which it should be placed, but 

 the eyes are considerably less narrow than in that genus, although 

 certainly not circular. The rostrum has a triangular glabrous 

 space at the apex, but it is not limited by abruptly vertical 

 walls, as in almost all other genera of the Leptopsides. The 

 two species described below are from mountainous parts of 

 New South Wales and Victoria. The first species is the type 

 of the genus. 



Uroleptops impendens, n.sp. 



Black, antennae and tarsi obscurely reddish. Densely 

 clothed with fawn-coloured or very pale brown scales, becoming- 

 still paler on undersurface, and on sides of elytra. With stout 

 but usually depressed setae scattered about. 



Head with small, dense, concealed punctures. Rostrum 

 slightly wider at base than at apex, sides gently incurved to 

 middle, about base with feeble longitudinal depressions, with 

 a narrow carina from base to between antennae, punctures con- 

 cealed except on apical triangle. Frothorax not much wider 



