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third, the others gradually decreasing in length, but each distinetly longer than wide. 
Prothorax about as long as wide, sides rather strongly and evenly rounded, apex 
scarcely visibly incurved to middle; with a feeble median line. Sceutellum absent. 
Elytra elliptic-ovate, at base no wider than base of prothorax, but much wider across 
middle than middle of prothorax; with series of moderate sized punetures in distinet 
striae; interstices convex, second and fourth wider than the others, suture (posteriorly) 
third and fifth feebly raised, third to sixth somewhat sinuous about middle. Second 
segment of abdomen shorter than first, but as long as two following combined. 
Front tibiae rather feebly denticulate below. Length 5'/,—8 mm. 
Hab. — Queensland (Berlin Museum). 
The female differs from the male in being larger, with more strongly inflated 
elytra and shorter legs. 
The elytra are narrowed to the base to an even greater extent than in con- 
vexipennis, but they are rather less convex than in that species, and are not 
prettily variegated. 
Two of the four specimens before me have the tibiae and femora reddish as well 
as the tarsi; one of these has also the head diluted with red, and the other the 
head and elytra. The scales at the base of the head have sometimes a distinet 
golden or golden-green gloss. The two basal joints of the funicle are of almost even 
length, and from some directions the first actually appears to be the shorter, instead 
of being, as it is, really a trifle longer. The prothorax is rather strongly convex and 
appears (on abrasion) to be covered with large, flattened, more or less conjoined 
granules, causing the surface to appear somewhat vermieulate, but there are (at any 
rate on the disc) no true free granules. 
104. Perperus Couloni, Lea? 
Two somewhat abraded specimens labelled Nov. Holl. that I cannot distinguish 
from this species. It was originally described from King Island, but I have recently 
seen a Vietorian specimen. 
105. P. malevolens, Lea. 
106. Methypora tibialis, n. sp. 
Reddish-brown, in places blackish. Densely clothed with soft muddy-grey 
scales, becoming whitish, or at least paler on scutellum, posterior declivity and parts 
of the undersurface. 
Head with dense eoncealed punctures. Rostrum about the length of prothorax, 
strongly grooved along middle, with a (usually concealed) fine carina in the groove, 
with a sublateral sulcus from near each antenna to side of eye. Antennae not 
extending to base of prothorax, second joint of funiele about once and one half the 
length of first. Prothorax diminishing in width to apex, basal two-thirds sub- 
parallel, depressed along middle, base strongly bisinuate, vermiculate-tuberculate. 
Elytra subparallel sided from near base to near apex, each strongly separately 
rounded at base; with rows of large, round, partially concealed punctures; interstices 
tubereulate or with short ridges in places. Legs long; femora clavate; four front 
tibiae strongly curved, hind pair compressed and slightly curved on the outer half. 
Length (including rostrum) 7'/,-—9'/, mm. 
