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along middle about as long as wide; densely punctate; without a 

 circular depression on each side of base. Elytra slriate-punctate, 

 interstices with rather numerous granules, more noticeable beyond 

 the middle than elsewhere. Pygidium non-carinate. Front femora 

 strongly and acutely, middle pair moderately, hind pair rather feebly 

 dentate; front tibi£e of male longer and thinner than those of 

 female. Length 4 3/4-5 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Queensland : Gape York (Macleay Museum), Gairus 

 (E. Allen, H. Hacker, J. -A. Anderson), Mackay (G. French). 



The colour is somewhat as in bilobus, but the clothing is not 

 quite the same, and the prothorax is without foveate basal im- 

 pressions. 



The golden pubescence (which appears sometimes to be ochreous 

 or mixed with an ochreous meal) is fairly dense between eyes, forms 

 a fairly large pear-shaped patch on prothorax (the narrow end 

 touching the apex) and is fairly dense about scutellum (where, 

 however, scales somewhat similar in shape to those on the under 

 surface, although more ochreous in colour are also fairly numerous), 

 and is rather sparsely and almost evenly distributed on the elytra. 

 On the elytra there are usually four white or whitish spots forming 

 a transverse row at about one- third from apex, but frequently the 

 outer spots are abraded and occasionally there are feeble inter- 

 mediate spots; there are generally also two ill defined spots quite 

 close to the apex. The pygidium is densely and irregularly clothed 

 and usually has a white median line. The white scales on the under 

 surface and Hanks of prothorax are true scales, but each appears to 

 be composed of fairly stout and slightly curved sette, arranged like 

 a fan; in places these pseudo-seta3 can be seen quite distinctly to 

 become conjoined before their containing puncture, but in other 

 places the punctures appear to contain feeble fascicles composed of 

 a few setae. The scales, however, are sometimes so covered with 

 meal that their character is hard to see. 



637. L^MOSACGUS NIGRIGEPS n. sp. 



Reddish-castaneous, in places black or infuscate. Irregularly 

 clothed with pubescence varying from almost white to ochreous or 

 golden, but paler and more uniform on under surface than else- 

 where. 



i/ead densely granulate-punclate; eyes more projecting and closer 

 together in male than in female. Rostrum in male stout, feebly 

 curved; densely and coarsely punctate, and with traces of a feeble 

 rnedian carina; in female longer, thinner, feebly shining and with 



