BY A. M. LEA. 675 



Moderately clothed with whitish or stramineous depressed setse, 

 denser, paler, and more squamose in character on sides of sterna, 

 and sparser on abdomen, than elsewhere. 



Rostrum moderately long, thin, and lightly curved; basal two- 

 fifths with fine ridges, and rows of punctures, the latter continued 

 to, but becoming smaller towards, apex. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, base not much wider than apex; with fairly large but 

 partially concealed punctures. Elytra at base somewhat wider 

 than prothorax, sides feebly dilated or almost parallel-sided to 

 beyond the middle; with rows of comparatively small, partially 

 concealed punctures. Basal segments of abdomen flattened across 

 middle. Length, l|mm. 



^a6.— Queensland : Dalby(Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 



The clothing at first appears more like pubescence than scales, 

 and this, with the pale prothorax, render the species easy of 

 recognition. M. oblonga, which in colour is very similar, is less 

 parallel-sided, and has different clothing. In shape it approaches 

 some of the varieties of M. amplicoUis and 31. vicina^ but the 

 elytra are entirely without dark markings, even the suture not 

 being distinctly infuscated, although perhaps a trifle darker than 

 the adjacent parts. On the two typical specimens, there are no 

 glittering scales; on the prothorax, the clothing is transversely 

 or obliquely placed, with, consequently, a fairly distinct median 

 line. On the elytra, in addition to the depressed setae, there are 

 some curved ones, not closely applied to the derm, so that they 

 are fairly distinct from the sides, although they are not suberect. 



MiSOPHRICE EVANIDA, n.Sp. 



Of a pale, dingy testaceous; head, most of antennae, scutellum, 

 base and suture of elytra, with a subapical spot on each side, 

 sides of meso- and of metasternum, and the tarsi more or less 

 deeply infuscated. Rather sparsely clothed with whitish de- 

 pressed setae. 



Rostrum moderately long, thin, and curved ; with rows of 

 punctures, separated by feeble ridges on basal half, elsewhere 

 smaller but still seriate in arrangement. Prothorax distinctly 

 transverse, base somewhat wider than apex: with fairly dense 



