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among those having the fourth (i.e , the fifth) interstice con- 

 tinuously tuberculate, he was certainly in error, as this interstice 

 is only tuberculate at the humeral angle. The contrast of the 

 black tubercles against the brown clothing relieved by the white 

 vittee, renders this species one of the most beautiful in the genus. 



ScLERORiNUS Germari Macl. 



Macleay, op. cit., 1866, p. 325. 



(J. Small, elongate, subparallel. Black; densely clothed with 

 brownish subpubescence, vittate with grey; head trivittate, 

 median vitta bifurcate on rostrum; prothorax trivittate; elytra 

 with an interrupted vitta along side of disc, and another along 

 third interstice; sides of sternal and ventral segments clothed 

 with white; median vitta dark golden-brown, segments sparsely 

 clothed with whitish pubescence between vitta and lateral patches. 



Head slightly depressed in front, median line bare in front, 

 but not carinate. External rostral ridges parallel, not continued 

 on to head: median carina bare, not appreciably raised; sub- 

 lateral sulci rather narrow, deepened posteriorly. Prothorax 

 (3-5 X 4*5 mm.) rather widely dilatate on sides; set with small, 

 moderately closely placed granules, smaller and almost obsolete 

 over centre of disc; sides granulate. Elytra (9 X 5 mm.) little 

 rounded on the sides; base gently emarginate; seriate punctures 

 rather wide, obscured by clothing, irjtrastrial granules not 

 traceable through clothing ; interstices very feebly raised, 

 tuberculate, tubercles small, subconical towards apex; second in- 

 terstice with two or three, not reaching base, nor extending 

 down declivity; third interstices slightly approximated on de- 

 clivity, tubercles obscured by clothing, about ten on each, ex- 

 tending from base to down declivity; fourth with one or two; 

 fifth with a moderately distinct humeral tubercle, and a short 

 row rapidly diminishing in size, followed by a few, isolated 

 tubercles; sixth with a continuous row of small tubercles, out- 

 wardly directed, not reaching base. Sides with interstices gran- 

 ulate. Undersurface with ventral segments flat. Anterior 

 femora feebly ridged beneath; intermediate tarsi with a strong 

 subapical emargination. 



