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formed of spots, and the postmedian fascia also entire ; on one specimen it is 

 widely advanced along the suture so as almost to touch the semicircles; on some 

 of the pale specimens there are also traces of pale subapical spots. On about 

 half of the specimens there are two shallow impressions on the disc of the 

 pronotum, but on others these are not, or scarcelj'", traceable. The specimens 

 from Mount Tambourine and New South Wales were all sifted from rotting 

 leaves; the specimen from jNir. Dodd was taken from a sticky seed of Fisonia 

 hrunoniana. 



This species is certainly congeneric with A. marmoratum, but it is doubtful 

 if the genus Mthinodes can be maintained as distinct from Lasiodactylus. 



Family TROGOSITID^. 

 PHYCOSECIS HILLI sp. nov. 



Black ; under surface, legs, and antenna of a dingy brown. Upper surface 

 with silvery-white adpressed scales, almost evenly plating the prothorax, some- 

 what thinner and sublineately arranged on elytra; under surface and legs with 

 sparse pubescence or short setae. 



Head wide. ProtJiorax transverse, hind angles widely rounded off, 

 median lobe wide, semicircular, and concealing head from above. Elytra sub- 

 ovate, base slightly wider than widest part of prothorax ; with large shallow 

 punctures, each containing and almost concealed by a scale. Legs thin, but not 

 xery long. Length, 2 mm. 



//a&.— Queensland : Townsville (G. F. Hill, No. 1054, and A. M. Lea); 

 Cairns (E. Allen). — Type, 1.11589 in South Australian Museum; cotype, 

 C/2277 in Queensland Museum. 



In size and general appearance close to P. ammophilus, but prothoracic 

 scales not quite as dense, and elytral clothing true scales instead of more or less 

 stout setse. The derm of the elytra is usually black, but on several specimens is 

 a dingy brown. Ten specimens were obtained at the roots of beach-growing 

 plants. 



Family SCARAB.EID^. 

 PHYLLOTOCIDIUM BIMACULIFLAVUM Lea. 



A specimen from Dorrigo (in the Queensland Museum) differs from the 

 type in being flavous with a greenish gloss, the gloss very conspicuous on the 

 head, and on some dark markings on the prothorax and elytra; these consist of 

 four spots on the prothorax — a fairly large one on each side of the middle, and 

 a small one on each side ; on each elytron there is a small humeral spot and a 

 transverse mark about the middle; only comparatively small parts of the legs 

 are infuscated. A specimen from Comboyne is even paler, on the prothorax 

 only the lateral spots are present, and on the elytra only the transverse ones. 



