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gular. Sublateral sulci deep, curved and widely open posteriorly. 

 Scrobesdeep, oblique, touching eyes at theirlower edge. Antennse 

 tairly short and stout, none of the joints of funicle transverse. 

 Prothorax moderately transverse, sides moderately rounded with 

 coarse irregular punctures. Scuteiium minute and depressed. 

 Elytra separately irregularly rounded at base, enlarged to beyond 

 the middle, where tour tubercles mark the summit of the posterior 

 dedivity, this being almost vertical; with large partly concealed 

 punctures in single séries. Front tibiœ stout, rather strongly 

 curved and with numerous tairly distinct teeth. — Length 9-12 mill. 

 Hah. : N. S. Wales : Ash Island, Illawara, Clarence River 

 (Macleay Muséum), Wollongong, Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea), Albion 

 Park (R. Helms); Queensland : Rockhampton (Macleay Muséum), 

 Brisbane (Aug. Simson). 



The scales are unusually dense; in colour they vary on indivi- 

 duals from an almost uniform dingy brown to apalegreyish-brown, 

 and they are occasionally feebly variegated, especially on the elytra. 

 On the sides and under surface they sometimes bave a feebly rosy 

 gloss. The setœ are usually, but not always, darker than the scales 

 amongst which they are placed, and they often appear as fascicles 

 on the tubercles. On abrasion the intermediate carinœ, instead of 

 each being divided into two by the sublateral sulci, are seen to be 

 divided into three, of which the inner fork touches the médian 

 carina almost at its base, so that between the scrobes there appear to 

 be seven carinae and six grooves. Before abrasion the prothorax 

 appears to be obsoletely vermiculate-tuberculate, and without a 

 médian impression. The elytral punctures are not at ail geminate in 

 arrangement, and on abrasion are seen to be large, round and 

 mostly isolated, the four tubercles are so placed that the médian 

 ones are slightly beyond the outer ones ; they are ail fairly large 

 but obtuse, the inner ones being on the third interstices, but also 

 partly on the second and fourth, the outer ones similarly being on 

 the sixth-eighth interstices. 



In gênerai appearance fairly close to L. superciliaris, but each 

 elytron with two distinct tubercles only, and much wider beyond 

 the middle than across the shoulders; the third interstice and the 

 shoulders are also much less prominent. 



Leptops rostralis n. sp. 



Black. Densely covered with pale muddy brown scales, modera- 

 tely interspersed with stout semidecumbent and rather darker 

 setse. 



