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489. PSEUDAPRIES CORTICALIS n. sp. 



PiceoLis-red, antennae and claw joints dull red. Densely clothed 

 with pale fawn-coloured scales, the punctures and other depressions 

 with sooty scales; rostrum glabrous at extreme apex. Prothorax at 

 sides and apex, and elytra on interstices (especially towards apex) 

 with very stout suberect scales. Under surface and legs with 

 moderately stout suberect scales, distributed amongst the others ; 

 femora and tibiae feebly ringed with black scales. 



Head flattened between eyes; ocular fovea small, longitudinal, 

 entirely concealed. Ilostrum short, very finely punctate, punctures 

 (except at apex) concealed. Scape stout, inserted just before middle 

 of rostrum, scarcely the length of two basal joints of funicle; first 

 joint of funicle twice the length of second. ProfJwrax slightly 

 transverse, apex rounded and more than half the width of base; 

 constriction deep, continued on to disc and terminated on each side 

 just before base; middle with a pear or dumb-bell shaped excava- 

 tion, bounded by a more or less lyre-shaped ridge; scutellar lobe 

 distinct. Eiijlra about once and one-third the width of prothorax, 

 widest just before middle; seriate-foveate, fovese round and close 

 together, appearing as very large punctures through the clothing; 

 third fifth and seventh interstices raised and sinuous. Basal segment 

 of abdomen with a semicircular row of ten very large punctures or 

 foveas, more or less concealed by clothing. Hind femora strongly 

 dentate, the front pair feebly grooved. Length 3 1/2-4 1/2 mill. 



Hah. : Queensland : Rockhampton (Belgian Museum), Endeavour 

 River, Cairns (G. Masters), Cooktown (J. Faust); N. S. Wales : 

 Tweed and Piichmond Rivers (A. M. Lea). 



The clothing is so dense and uniform that, except the larger 

 scales, it is impossible with a Coddington lens to pick out each 

 individual scale. Specimens may be obtained in abundance under 

 rotting bark. 



490. Cryplorlnjnchus liiJiodernuis Boisdv. 



1 have examined the type of this species; it is a Poropterus and 

 the same as varicosus Pasc. 



491. Ci'uptorliiinchm fuUginosus Boisdv. 



I have examined the type of this species; it liis an Omydaus and 

 the species 1 supposed it to be {Proc. Linn. i6oc. N. S. Wales, 1900, 

 p. 538). 



