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and liaiisverso slrigosities. The médian channel of Ihe prothorax is 

 vai'ial)le but seldom sharply dethied, tlie médian carina is also 

 variable and a[)[)ear-s sonetimes as a shinning and ahnost l'ounded 

 médian node. In places on the elytra the tubercles areso very obtuse 

 thattdey niiglit laifly be regai'ded as al)sentand they aren ever very 

 large, but they are larger on the third, lil'tli, and seventh interstices 

 ttian on they others, and they very slighty enlarge to near the pos- 

 terior declivity, where those on the suture are more distinct than 

 towards the base, on the base of the suture and on the second they 

 are sometimes very sparse, or altogether absent; they are also 

 sometimes very sparse on the fourth and sixth, especially in the 

 maies. The suture posteriorly is somewhat as in L. robustus, but the 

 two species hâve Uttle else in common, and the présent species is a 

 very isolated one. The female is larger and wider than the maie, 

 with smaller but more numerous granules or tubercles and shorter 

 legs. 



A spécimen from Forest Reefs bas the prothorax more strongly 

 rounded on the sides, the second fourth and sixth interstices 

 entirely without granules, and the punctures more regular and 

 larger. 



Leptops orthodoxus n. sp. 



Black. Densely and almost uniformly clothed with soft pale 

 scales, thickly interspersed with stout stramineous almost decum- 

 bent seta3 ; club with blackish scales. 



Rostrum acutely carinated along middle, intermediate carinœ 

 obtuse. Sublateral sulci narrow and closed posteriorly. Scrobes 

 feebly curved, almost touching middle of eyes, fairly deep and 

 narrow. Antennœ fairly stout and not very long, none of the joints 

 of funicle transverse. Prothorax feebly transverse, sides strongly 

 rounded in front; obtusely vermiculate-tuberculate ; médian im- 

 pression rather deep in front, with a shining médian node or 

 abbreviated carina. Elytra ovate, with double séries of fairly large 

 and regular but more or less concealed punctures; third, fifth and 

 seventh interstices tuberculate. Front tibiie strongly curved and 

 edentate. — Length 12-17 mill. 



Hab. : Queensland : Wide Bay (Macleay Muséum), Salisbury Plains 

 (Aug. Simson). 



The scales (which might be regarded as of a very pale yellowish- 

 brown colour) on two of the four spécimens before me bave a faint 

 satiny lustre, they are usually slightly paler than the setae. The 

 rostrum is much as in the preceding species except that the 

 scrobes are longer, but the clothing is so dense that the sculpture is 



