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ferruginous; femora and ))Osterior trochanters testaceous; tibiae 

 and tarsi reddish-piceous; antennae ferruginous, paler near base, 

 infuscate towards apex. Prothorax transverse (1-7x3 mm.), 

 depressed on disc and across base, lightly declivous to sides on 

 anterior two-thirds; apex lightly emarginate; anterior angles 

 obtuse, not prominent; sides lightly rounded; basal angles obtuse; 

 base lightly sinuate-truncate in middle between lateral basal 

 impressions, sinuate on each side; border entire on apex, rather 

 wide on sides, obsolete just before basal angles; median line 

 hardly marked; lateral basal impressions linear, short, shallow, 

 punctulate. Elytra widely ovate (4-8 x 3-7 mm.) ; shoulders 

 rounded; interstices convex, narrower and more raised at apex. 

 Length 7 7, breadth 3*7 mm. 



Hah. — Q.: Kuranda (Dodd; Coll. Sloane; unique). 



Tribe LEBIINI. 



Genus Phlceodromius. 



Phlcegdromius plagiatus Macle^. 



This species, described from Yule Island, New Guinea, is here 

 recorded from Australia for the first time. It is at once dis- 

 tinguished from Ph. piceus Macl., the only other species of the 

 genus, by the large black patch common to both elytra which 

 extends from about the basal third to the apical fifth and reaches 

 laterally to the ninth interstice, but not to the border. Length 

 9, proth. 1-5x2, el. 5x35 mm. 



Hab. — Q.: Townsville and Kuranda (Dodd; Coll. Sloane). 



Note.— In the genus Phloeodromuis the mesosternum is small 

 and narrow between the intermediate coxse, and the metasternum 

 meets it by a very narrow intercoxal prolongation; the tarsi have 

 all the joints clothed beneath with chestnut-coloured hairpads; 

 in the male two narrow rows of paler squamulse are noticeable in 

 the middle of joints 1-3 of the anterior tarsi, and the third joint 

 of the intermediate tarsi; the third interstice of the elytra is 

 3-punctate, the anterior puncture is near the base beside the 

 third stria, the second puncture a little before the middle near 

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