670 NEW SPECIES OF* AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, X., 



sides strongl}^ rounded, base distinctly wider than apex; with 

 dense, round punctures, and with a vague median carina. Elytra 

 much wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex; with 

 rows of large punctures in deep striae; interstices wider than 

 striae, with numerous partially concealed granules and punctures. 

 Second segment of abdomen distinctly shorter than fifth, the latter 

 with a wide shallow impression. Length, ^\-^\ nim. 



9. Differs in having the second segment of abdomen slightly 

 longer than fifth, and the latter with the shallow impression 

 much smaller. 



Hab. — New South Wales (Macleay Museum), Goulburn (T. G. 

 Sloane). 



Close to E. grarmlatus, but with the clothing condensed into 

 spots in places. From E. niveodispersus, it differs in the clothing 

 on the interstices being less setose in character, and by the total 

 absence of snowy scales from the striae. From a co-type of E. 

 angustatus, it differs in being larger and wider, prothorax more 

 strongly rounded in middle, and the elytral scales stouter and 

 less setose. The two females before me have the rostrum and 

 legs obscurely diluted with red. On the elytra, the scales are 

 mostly stramineous or subochreous, and give the surface a some- 

 what spotted appearance, but there are numerous sooty scales, 

 that, owing to their resemblance to the derm, are very easily 

 overlooked. On the prothorax, the paler scales are condensed 

 to form three feeble lines. On the undersurface and legs, the 

 clothing is almost uniformly whitish. 



Empolis squamosus, n.sp. 



9. Black; rostrum, antennae, and legs of a more or less dingy 

 red. Densely clothed with dull, pale ochreous scales, variegated 

 with small, sooty spots; on undersurface, scales mostly of a dull 

 bluish-white. 



Head with crowded concealed punctures. Rostrum long, thin, 

 and curved; with numerous punctures, clearly defined in front, 

 concealed about base, and sublineate in arrangement behind 

 antennae; from antennae to base with a rather feeble median 

 carina. Antennae thin, inserted about two-fifths from apex of 



