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218. J^. notahilis Pasc. 



219. Iphisaxiis asper Pasc. — IJab. : K. G. Sound. 



220. /. mthiops Pasc. 



221. Aterpus cuUratus Fabr. 



222. A. grisealus Pasc. 



223. A. ruhiis Boii. 



224. A. tuhevculatus Gyll. 



225. RHINARIA PULICOSA n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, in places almost black. Densely clothed with 

 whitish or straw coloured scales (but snowy on scutellum) denser on 

 under than on upper surface, on the latter variegated with numerous 

 feeble ochreous or pale brown spots ; prothorax with three feeble 

 stripes. With rather numerous setse on botli surfaces. 



Head with dense but more or less concealed punctures, becoming 

 rather coarse between eyes. Crests wide and (for the genus) rather 

 feebly raised, conjoined in front. Rostrum wide, with a wide and 

 -rather shallow median setose excavation, at the base of which 

 (immediately in front of the crests) is a flattened nude tubercle; 

 scrobe narrowly produced in front. Second and third joints of 

 funicle subequal in length. Prothorax about as long as wide, sides 

 strongly rounded, with dense and fairly large punctures, the hind 

 margins of which appear as granules. Elijtra much wider than 

 prothorax, with regular rows of large but more or less concealed 

 punctures ; the interstices each with a regular row of conspicuous 

 granules almost to apex. Length (excluding rostrum) 10 12 1/2 mill. 



Hah.: S. Australia: Adelaide (Berhn Museum); Victoria (Entomo- 

 logical Society of Rerlin); N. S. Wales: Sydney (Hamburg and 

 Belgian Museums;, Blue Mountains (H. ,T. Carter). 



The clothing has a distinctly speckled appearance, but with age 

 this becomes less conspicuous. Where it is densest it usually has a 

 soft sheen, but on only one of nine specimens before me are any 

 opalescent gleams to be seen. The elytral granules are generally of 

 a bright red, but sometimes are almost black. 



In appearance almost exactly like hlsulcafa (and with somewhat 

 similar rostrum and crests) but granules on elytra larger, and 

 prothorax with rather large but partially concealed punctures. The 

 prothorax appears to be thickly set with granules, rather larger than 

 in hisulcata, but whilst in that species they appear to be true 

 granules, in the present species they are simply the elevated hind 

 parts of the walls of the punctures. The prothorax also in this species 

 is distinctly marked with three stripes, whilst hisulcata is feebly 



