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postice subparallelo antice moclice angustato, postice in medio 

 leviter canaliculato, creberrime subrugulose (in femina quam 

 in mare paullo minus crebre) punctulato, angulis posticis vix 

 perspicue divergentibus sat elongatis sat fortiter bicarinatis ; 

 elytris apice vix emarginatis, leviter striatis, striis distincte 

 nee crebre punctulatis, interstitiis subplanis subtiliter crebre 

 subaspere punctulatis ; corpore subtus subtiliter creberrime 

 (prosterno in medio magis fortiter magis sparsim punctulato 

 excepto, hoc ad latera hand sulcato) punctulato ; antennis 

 prothoracis basin (maris sat fortiter feminae vix) superantibus, 

 articulo 3° quam 2 U8 duplo longiori ; tarsorum lamella sat 

 lata ; capite postice in medio longitudinaliter sat fortiter 

 carinato. [Long. 3?-61, lat. 1-2 lines. 



An obscure and inconspicuous looking species varying greatly 

 in size and more or less in colour (these variations are, I think, 

 almost universal in the Australian Monocr&pidii). Its chief 

 reliable characters seem to be the comparatively strong carina on 

 the head, the very close asperate puncturation of the prothorax 

 (especially in the male), the slightness of the narrowing of the 

 prothorax, except quite near the front (making the segment 

 appear less elongate than it really is), and the uniformly pitchy- 

 black colour of the upper surface combined with entirely testaceous 

 legs. The distinctly testaceous colour of the apex of the abdomen 

 also seems constant, though more conspicuous in some examples 

 than in others. The elytral interstices are distinctly transversely 

 strigose. In Dr. Candeze's tabulation of Monocrepidius (referred 

 to above under M. ruficollis) this species would fall beside M. 

 rectangulus, from which inter alia its much smaller size, posterior 

 prothoracic angles not quite so absolutely non-divergent, and more 

 elongate prothorax, will at once distinguish it. 

 Victoria ; Alpine district. 



Monocrepidius alpicola, sp.no v. 



Moclice elongatus ; nitidus ; obscure f ulvo-pubescens ; supra 

 niger, scutello et corpore subtus rufo-ferrugineis (sternis et 

 abdominis basi nonnullis exemplis obscurioribus), antennis 



