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more noticeably raised.. On comparing a long series of both species together the 
differences of elytral clothing at once strike the eye, but the two are nevertheless 
very closely allied. Crassus and sparsus have the elytral interstices almost or 
quite uniform in elevation. 
The species is common about Sydney on shrubs of the genus Leptospermum. 
124. P. argentosus, Gyll. Hab. — Queensland. 
125. Rhinaria elegans, n. sp. 
Head (including crests), rostrum, prothorax, under-surface, appendages, scales 
(except in colour and pattern) and granules as in caudata, but elytra different at 
apex. Length 9—10 mm. 
Hab. — Australia (Berlin Museum); N. S. Wales: Sydney (A. M. Lea). 
The sculpture of this species (except for its elytra) and the scales (except 
their markings) are almost exactly as in caudata, and I am in fact doubtful as to 
whether it should not be regarded as a variety of that species. The elytra however 
are much less constrieted towards the apex, and scarcely notehed. On the prothorax 
there are three feeble pale longitudinal markings, and several feeble spots. On the 
elytra there is a distinet dark brown triangle (rather pale towards the base, however), 
commeneing on the shoulders, with its apex on the suture at the basal third; beyond 
this is an oblique pale (but not white) stripe, then a dark stripe slightly greater in 
width but somewhat diluted at suture; then another pale stripe almost (or quite) 
touching the suture, then an irregular dark triangle or angular space, which may or 
may not be connected with the dark median stripe. On the under-surface the 
clothing is mostly pale, but variegated with brown on the abdomen. 
There are two specimens before me which agree almost exactly in the above 
very conspicuous markings; one of these belongs to the Berlin Museum, and bore 
the M. S. name which I have adopted. 
On eleven other speeimens (ranging in size from 7'/, to 10 mm) the scales of 
the upper surface are of an almost uniform muddy-brown; but on the prothorax vague 
spots can sometimes be seen, and on the elytra very indistinet and slightly darker 
spaces can be noticed. 
On three other specimens the prothorax has the markings as on the types, but 
the elytra are vaguely mottled with pale and dark spots (but on one of these the 
spots are almost black). 
On another specimen there are about eight pale spots’ on the disc of the pro- 
thorax, and on the elytra feeble pale spots are more or less conjoined, so as to 
form a feeble oblique stripe from near each shoulder to near the suture, just before 
the middle, another but very irregular one some distance beyond but parallel with 
the first, and a short oblique stripe on each side of the posterior declivity. 
On still another specimen the elothing of the prothorax and elytra is mostly 
of a pale ochreous brown, but on the former there is or feeble and continuous median 
stripe (and no other markings), and on the latter there are a number of dark spots 
scattered about from the basal third to about the middle. With large irregular spaces 
slightly paler than other large spaces. 
