500 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xi., 



Ill general appearance close to P. furyidus, but second abdo- 

 minal segment almost as long as third and fourth combined, and 

 scutellum absent. On the elytra, the dark markings are rather 

 sharply contrasted; they commence on each shoulder, about the 

 middle are abruptly turned inwards, then outwards, and then 

 terminate in a zigzag line at summit of posterior declivity. The 

 prothoracic granules cause the surface to appear somewhat ver- 

 miculate; they are completely covered by scales, but easily trace- 

 able through them. 



POLYPHRADES AMPLIATUS PaSC. 



P. setosus Lea. 

 A cotype of P. ampliatus, sent for examination, proves to be 

 the same as P. setosus, over which it has priority. Although its 

 clothing was described as "albis vel subargenteis," the cotype is 

 greyish without the least silvery gloss, and all the numerous 

 specimens of the species, that I have seen, have opaque clothing. 



POLYPHRADES PUSILLUS PaSC. 



{t)P. ortyx Pasc. 

 A cotype of P. ortyx, sent for examination, agrees well with a 

 species I have long had as P. pusillus,* and apparently correctl}' 

 so. P. ortyx was described immediately after P. pusillus (a 

 species sexually and individually variable — as are so many others 

 of the genus) ; if really distinct, the differences need to be 

 specified. 



Zephryne laticeps, n.sp. 



Black or blackish; appendages in parts more or less obscurely 

 reddish. Densely clothed with greyish scales, somewhat varie- 

 gated with brown. In addition, with fairly numerous, recui-ved 

 setse. 



Head wide and depressed between eyes, and with a small but 

 conspicuous lobe below each of these. The eyes themselves 

 laterally prominent and distinct from above. Rostrum short, 

 strongly increasing in width to base; with four rather feeble 

 ridges, but each side at base with a very conspicuous tubercle. 



* From Champion Bay; the cotype is also labelled as from Champion Bay. 



