BY E. W. FERGUSON. 391 



and ochraceous; legs with whitish, setose scales, apices of femora 

 black; setae minute, black. 



Head set with small, rounded granules, forehead feebly con- 

 cave. Rostrum as in the genus, the external ridges rugosely 

 punctured, internal ridges obsolete. Prothorax (4-5 x 5*5 mm.) 

 rounded on sides, apical sinuosity feeble; disc convex, granules 

 small, rounded and dispersed; sides granulate. Elytra(llx8 

 mm.) strongly ampliate posteriorly, apex abruptly rounded, 

 strongly declivous ; base arcuate, humeral angles prominent, 

 noduliform; disc with six rows of granules becoming tuberculate 

 posteriorly, sutural with only a few at base, second and third 

 with about fourteen, the last five in each tuberculate; fourth 

 with eight or nine, not present on declivity, fifth and sixth with 

 about thirteen, the last six or seven conical. Beneath, convex, 

 with a few scales on ventral segments. Dimensions: 9,16 x 8mm. 

 Hab. — West Australia. 



Seven specimens, sent out, for examination, from the British 

 Museum, one (described above) marked as compared with type. 

 Another specimen (g) has the tubercles smaller; and, beneath, a 

 median vitta with black hair, widening out into a shallow trian- 

 gular impression at the apex of fifth ventral segment. 



SCLERHORRHINELLA GRANULICEPS, 11. Sp. 



These Proceedings, 1912, PI. ii., fig. 14. 



<J. Elongate-elliptical. Black, rather densely clothed with 

 dark brown scales, head feebly trivittate, median vitta bifurcate 

 and more strongly marked on rostrum, prothorax and elytra 

 broadly trivittate with white; median ventral vitta black; setae 

 small, black. 



Head and rostrum as in the genus; granules on head small, 

 rounded, somewhat depressed; external ridges convergent pos- 

 teriorly, setigero-punctate; internal ridges small, obscured, gran- 

 uliform. Prothorax (4x5 mm.) strongly rounded on sides, post- 

 ocular sinuosity feeble; closely and evenly set with small, rounded, 

 setigerous granules, not contiguous ; sides granulate. Elytra 

 (10 x 6 mm.) elongate-ovate, apex strongly rounded, base arcuate, 

 humeral angles noduliform; disc puncto-striate, punctures small, 



