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interstices are supplied with moderately distinct tubercles poste- 

 riorly (the largest being on the fiftii on the posterior declivity), 

 but towards the base they become very feeble; in the female they 

 are still more feeble, and the third and fifth to beyond the middie 

 are obtusely elevated only. On the suture there are a few granules, 

 but they are so small and well concealed that I bave not consi- 

 dered it advisable to include the species in the table araongst 

 those having the suture tuberculate. 



Two spécimens from S. Australia in the Macleay Muséum pro- 

 bably belong to this species, but as they are in bad condition I 

 refrain from other comment upon them. 



Leptops interruptus n. sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with soft white scales rather slightly 

 darker on alternate insterstices of elytra; with long, thin setse 

 moderately densely distributed. 



Rostrum moderately stout, with a narrow and rather feeble carina 

 along middie, Sublateral sulci shallow and irregular. Scrobes 

 almost straight, directed towards lower third of eyes. Antennœ 

 thin, first joint of funicle slightly longer than second, none of the 

 others transverse. Prothorax moderately transverse, regularly 

 convex, sides gently rounded in front; feehly tuberculate; médian 

 impression feeble. Elytra subovate; with rather large partially 

 concealed punctures; interstices regularly rounded, the third fifth 

 and seventh wider than the others. Front tibiœ rather feebly 

 curved, edentate. — Length 8-9 mill. 



Hab. : Western Interior of S. Australia (Macleay Muséum). 



The female is larger than the maie, with wider elytra (and which 

 are more dilated to about the middie) and shorter legs. The 

 Clothing is so dense that it is difficult to make out the sculpture, but 

 the prothorax appears to be densely punctate alloverand supplied 

 with numerous small and irregular granules. The scales on the 

 third, fifth, seventh and ninth interstices are distinctiy whiter than 

 on the others, so that the elytra appear to be feebly striped; for a 

 short space almost exactly in the middie of the tifth (1) the white 

 scales are absent or almost so, but the seta; are not also interrupted ; 

 thèse seminiide spaces are exactly the same on both sides of the 

 three spécimens before me. 



(Il The fifth tei'miuates considei'ably before tlie apex. 



