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much smaller but still rather dense punctures. First joint of funicle 

 in female longer than second, but slightly shorter than second in 

 male; club fully as long as funicle. Prothorax along middle about 

 as long as wide; densely granulate-punctate, without a circular 

 impression on each side of base. Elytra punctate-striate; suture 

 depressed, especially towards base; interstices with a few small 

 granules, except on the fifth (and to a less extent the fourth and 

 sixth) on which they are larger and more numerous. Pygidium. non- 

 carinate. Front femora strongly and acutely dentate, the others 

 edentate; front tibiae of male longer thinner and more curved than 

 those of female. Length 4 i/2-5 mill. 



Hab. : Queensland : Wide Bay (Belgian Museum). 



In appearance rather close to catenatus, but narrower, with 

 denser clothing behind scutellum, and the rest on the elytra vaguely 

 dispersed. The prothorax is without basal foveae as in bilobus and 

 i)isidaris, and the sides are without the white scales of the preceding 

 species. 



The black parts are the head, base of rostrum (the black some- 

 times extends almost to the apex) and a large space in the middle 

 of the prothorax ; part of the abdomen also is usually deeply 

 infuscated. The pubescence is fairly dense between eyes and on each 

 side of base of head; about base apex and sides of prothorax, and 

 forms four spots in the form of a cross on the disc; on the elytra it 

 appears (on specimens in good condition) to form numerous feeble 

 irregular fascite causing (to the naked eye) a feeble mottled appear- 

 ance. Just behind the scutellum there is a conspicuous patch of 

 paler clothing than elsewhere. The rostrum of the female is as long 

 as the front tibiae, but that of the male is distinctly shorter. 



638. LiEMOSACCUS DUBIUS Lea. 



The type of this species appears to be an abraded female. There 

 are now a number of specimens before me from Mittagong evidently 

 in perfect condition, and these have white scales forming a distinct 

 short stripe on the middle of the base of the prothorax, and a stripe 

 on each side (sometimes interrupted about the middle), a patch 

 about the scutellum, a distinct spot at the apex of each elytron, and 

 a spot on the pygidium. The male differs from the female in having 

 the rostrum shorter, stouter, less cylindrical and with coarse 

 punctures, and the eyes somewhat closer together. 



From notatus (which often has somewhat similar clothing) it may 

 be distinguished by its black derm, and by the entire absence of 

 clothing from the elytra, except about the scutellum and apex. 



