BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 473 



terior curved, the four posterior strongly and acutely dentate, the 

 anterior feebly. Length, lOJmm. 



Hob. — Queensland : Endeavour River. 



I cannot quite follow Herr Eaust in regarding the third tarsal 

 joint as entire. 



Tentegia Spenceri Blackb., Horn Exped. to Cent. Aust., Pt. ii., 

 Zool., 1896, p.298. 



Each puncture with a single, short seta, each granule on elytra 

 also with one; the elytra, in addition, with small and obscure 

 greyish scales. 



Head with large, round, shallow punctures. Rostrum with 

 smaller punctures than on head, and more irregular, but bearing 

 three distinct carinse in middle, and a somewhat curved one on 

 each side, which posteriorly curves round so as to margin the eye. 

 Prothorax with dense, large, round, shallow, honeycomb-like and 

 almost regular punctures. Elytra not much wider than pro- 

 thorax, base feebly sinuous; behind each shoulder, a granulate 

 and feebly tuberculiform process; with regular series of large, 

 round punctures on foveae, becoming larger and deeper at sides ; 

 interstices with almost perfectly regular series of comparatively 

 large granules, the alternate ones scarcely visibly raised at base. 

 Two basal segments of abdomen densely foveate^ the foveae of the 

 second not in two regular rows. Front femora with a small sub- 

 apical node, but scarcely dentate, the others feebly dentate but 

 the teeth invisible from most directions. Length, 1\ mm. 



Hab. - Central Australia : Illamurta, Rudall's Creek. — N. W. 

 Australia. 



The specimen described is a cotype. Another, from the north- 

 west, has the elytra rather densely clothed with muddy-brown, 

 stout setae, and dingy, whitish, setose scales. The subapical 

 lower tooth of the front tibiae is rather longer than usual, and, 

 in conjunction with the terminal hook, causes them to appear 

 semicircularly emarginate. 



Tentegia parva Blackb., I.e., p.299. 

 This species is noted as having an acute tooth on each side of 

 the femora (but less distinct on the hind pair), the elytra scarcely 



