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Leptops multinodosus n. sp. 



niack. Densely covered witli soft greyish scales, thickly inters- 

 persed willi slouter seinidecumbenL scales, in places turniiig lo 

 setœ. 



Hostiim fairly stoiit, feel»ly carinated along middle, intermediate 

 cariiKe obtuse. Siiblateral siilci short deep and closed posteriorly. 

 Scrobes sinuous, narrow and lairly deep posteriorly, directed 

 upwards and almost touching middle of eyes. Antennœ rather 

 short, scape stout; none ofthe joints of funicle transverse. Pro- 

 thorax in female feeldy, in maie very feeble transverse, sides mode- 

 rately strongly roundeil ; with fairly large tubercles, becoming in 

 places vermiculate, médian impression very feeble and irregalar, 

 non carinate. Klytra subovate, distinctly notched at apex; with 

 double séries of large partially concealed punctures; with nume- 

 rous small nodes or tubercles. Front tibiaj rather long, feebly 

 curved and very feebly dentate. — Length 11-17 mill. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales : Nowra, Tilba Tilba (Macleay Muséum), 

 Ouriinbah (Taylor Bros), Gosford (H,-J. Carter). 



There are eight spécimens before me; in two of thèse the scales 

 are of a dingy white, but in the others (probably owing to âge or 

 the killing médium used) they are more or less brownish; the 

 larger scales, however, are not alTected to the same extent as the 

 smaller and denser ones. Owing to the large size of the punctures 

 and to their being partly transversely conlluent, the second fourth 

 and sixth interstices appear to be supplied with séries of nodes, 

 whichonthethird lîfth and seventh are enlarged to small tubercles; 

 thèse become larger (but never very large or conical) on the third 

 and tifth beyond the middle, and on the seventh near the base. The 

 female is larger and wider than the maie, the elytra more regularly 

 convexe and the tubercles and nodes smaller and more regular. 



Spécimens from which the scales bave been partly abraded or 

 discoloured at aglance look much like L. cineraceiis, but the absence 

 of tubercles from 'the suture is at once distinctive. The very short 

 scape distinguised it from L. tubercidatus, nodicollis and inalcficus. 



Leptops squamosus n. sp. 



Black. Very densely covered with scales and which are rather 

 thickly interspersed with setse. 



Head deeply and narrowly impressed between eyes. Rostrum very 

 wide, strongly carinated along middle, intermediate carinœ irre- 



