90 



On three specimens there is a line of pubescence along the 

 middle of the abdomen, but it is not continued to the mesosternum 

 and crested as in so many males of the allied genera. It probably, 

 however, has been present on some of the other specimens, many 

 of which are old and in bad condition. At any rate in this species 

 the males are not readily separated from the females by the clothing 

 of the abdomen alone, and I know of no feature by which the sex 

 of a single specimen can be determined. 



There are specimens in the Macleay Museum from W. Australia 

 (Swan River;; S. Australia; Queensland (Peak Downs); N.S. Wales 

 (Monaro, Wagga, Yass, Coonabarabran and Clarence River). One 

 specimen in the Belgian Museum from Wide Bay, and several in 

 my own collection from Forest Reefs. 



608. BUBARIS APICALIS n. sp. 



Black. Moderately clothed with fine setose pubescence, sparser 

 on posterior declivity than elsewhere. In addition with stout blackish 

 setse on the granules. Under surface of male with a hairy or setose 

 ridge, extending from mesosternum to apex of abdomen; replaced 

 in female by a feeble line of pale setose pubescence. 



Head with numerous longitudinal or oblique, but normally con- 

 cealed, impressions. R^ostrum about as wide as long, with three 

 deep grooves between four strong punctured I'idges, of which the 

 lateral ones are somewhat curved. Scape stout, apical half strongly 

 inflated; four apical joints of funicle transverse. I'rothorax slightly 

 transverse, sides strongly rounded; with large irregularlydistributed 

 granules, leaving a subfoveate space on each side of middle near 

 apex, and smaller spaces elsewhere; with a rather wide median 

 channel. Elytra at base not as wide as prothorax at its widest, but 

 dilating to beyond the middle; with irregular rows of large punctures 

 or fovese, becoming regular on sides; interstices with large irregular 

 granules, of which the larger ones are on the second and eighth 

 interstices, and the largest of all (but only a small tubercle) on the 

 second near summit of posterior declivity; base with six projections. 

 Length (excluding rostrum) 9-11 mill. 



Hah. : Queensland : Wide liay, Rockhampton, Port Denison 

 (Belgian Museum), Peak Downs, Port Denison, Brisbane (Macleay 

 Museum), Mackay (G. French). 



Readily distinguished from the species 1 have identified as 

 pitliecius, by the strong hairy ridge of the male, the denser clothing, 

 smaller and more numerous granules, and the very feeble tubercles 

 crowning the posterior declivity. 



