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beneath closely scaly; legs reddish, with rather close-set 

 grayish scales; antennae brownish-ferruginous; the first 

 joint of the funicle very little longer than the second, from 

 the second to the sixth comparatively long, but gra- 

 dually diminishing, club oblong-ovate. 



Length 4 lines, 



Hab. — Western Australia. 



A small, rather narrowly oval, almost elliptic, species : 

 unusually scaly, but with the prothorax striped, owing to 

 the paucity of the scales along the median line. In one 

 of my specimens, the last joint of the funicle is decidedly 

 pyi'iform; in the other, which is probably the female, 

 it is shortly obconic. 



10. Catasarcus pollinosus. 



Moderately oval, more convex posteriorly, black, par- 

 tially scaly, having an ashy waxy appearance above ; 

 head convex in front, four very stout prominent carinte, 

 all of equal length, the two intermediate incurved and 

 meeting directly above the transverse sulcus; rostrum 

 strongly grooved, the grooves, as well as those on the 

 head, slightly scaly; prothorax moderately transverse, 

 slightly rounded at the sides, the base slightly contracted, 

 but much broader than the apex, irregularly punctured 

 above, the punctures small, each with a single grayish 

 hair-like scale at its base, the intervals having a slightly 

 granulate character; scutellum indistinct; elytra sub- 

 striate-punctate, the punctures round, small, remote, and 

 including a patch of minute yellowish scales, the inter- 

 vals of the punctures apparently flattish, but slightly 

 tuberculate under a strong lens, with small very distinct 

 glossy black spots apparently embedded in the waxy 

 surface ; beneath blackish, legs dark ferruginous, both 

 sprinkled with small hair-like yellowish scales; antennse 

 moderate, the three penultimate joints of the funicle tur- 

 binate, the last triangular, club dark brown, the rest of 

 the antennee ferruginous. 



Length 6^ lines. 



Hah. — Western Australia. 



This species is very distinct. The peculiar waxy 

 appearance is not an exudation to be rubbed off, but is a 

 part of the tegument itself. 



