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Leptops T-squameus n. sp. 



Black. Densely covered with pale, variegated in places with 

 sooty scales, rather thickly interspersed with stout decumbent 

 setœ. 



Rostrum stout, feebly or not atall carinated along middle. Subla- 

 teral siilci deep, strongly curved,aimost meeting at base of rostruiTi. 

 Scrobes deep in front, shaliow behind, posteriorly directed below 

 eyes. Prothorax feebly transverse, sides rather feebly rounded in 

 front; with large obtuse tubercles; near apex deeply impres-ed on 

 each side, but not across middle, beyond middle with a deep, 

 sinuous impression continuous across middle, médian longitudinal 

 impression irregular but fairly deep in front. Scutellum small and 

 narrow. Elytra each strongly rounded at base, almost parallel-sided 

 to beyond the middle; with coarse, irregular, partially concealed 

 punctures; each with three strong subconical tubercles beyond the 

 middle and a fairly acute, Catasarcus-Vike tubercle on the side 

 behind the shoulder. Front tibiœ strongly curved and edentate. — 

 Length 16-21 mill. 



Hah. : Queensland : Cairns (Macleay Muséum and Henry 

 Hacker). 



The majority of the scales are of a pale stramineous-brown, but 

 the prothorax, elytra. undersurface and club are largely variegated 

 with sooty-brown scales. In the majority of spécimens the pale 

 scales form a distinct T on the elytra, as they cover a large 

 portion of the base, widely cover the suture and are dilated at the 

 summit of the posterior declivity ; they also cover the margins of 

 the elytra, but thèse are invisible from above. On some spécimens, 

 however, the elytra are irregularly mottled. The femora are usually 

 feebly ringed. Of four spécimens before me two bave the rostrum 

 feebly carinated along middle, whilst in the other two it is grooved 

 along middle. The sublateral sulci are very peculiar, although in 

 their almost becoming conjoined near the interocular fovea, they 

 resemble those of the preceding species. 



The elytra owing to the coarseness of their punctures and to 

 thèse being partially confluent, appear to be supplied with nume- 

 rous small obtuse tubercles, somewhat as in L. multinodosus, but 

 excluding those near the shoulder there are only three distinct 

 ones on each; one on the third interstice (and the largest of ail) 

 overhanging the posterior dechvity and two close together on the 

 fifth, one before and one behind that on third. 



