388 Mr. J. S. Baly-on 
Long. 1-13 lin. 
Hab.—Western Australia, Champion Bay. 
Head closely covered with adpressed fulvous hairs ; 
front impressed with a longitudinal groove; outer half 
of antenne pitchy-black ; thorax as wide as, or slightly 
wider at its base, than the elytra, sides regularly rounded 
and converging from base to apex; disc closely punc- 
tured, strigose-punctate on the sides; in the middle, 
‘extending from the extreme apex of the basal lobe half- 
‘way across the disc is a faint longitudinal ridge, on 
either side of which, just in front of the basal margin, 
is a broad but shallow and ill-defined transverse exca- 
vation ; basal margin narrowly edged with black; elytra 
subnitidous, scarcely equal in width to the base of the 
thorax, narrowed from base to apex; disc below the 
basal margin broadly but faintly depressed ; each elytron 
with eleven rows of sulcate strie, the first short; each 
stria impressed with a regular row of large round punc- 
tures, more or less stained with fuscous ; interspaces 
shightly raised, obsoletely convex on the inner disc, 
subcostate near the outer margin, distinctly punctured, 
here and there faintly wrinkled ; a spot on the humeral 
callus, and three large ill-defined patches placed trans- 
versely across the disc nearly half-way between its centre 
and the apex, obscure fuscous; of these patches the 
middle one is common and transverse, the two others 
oblong, and placed one on either side on the outer disc, 
and attached to the outer border of the elytron; the 
hinder half of the suture, the apical border of the elytra, 
and sometimes the hinder half of the lateral border, are 
narrowly edged with fuscous ; knees stained with piceous, 
tarsi pitchy-black. 
Ditropidus fulvus. 
Oblongus, fulvus, subnitidus, thorace sat crebre punc- 
tato, substrigoso, lateribus rugoso-punctatis, margine 
basali anguste nigro-marginato ; elytris punctato-striatis, 
punctis magnis, rotundatis, leviter impressis ; interspatiis 
obsolete convexiusculis, ad apicem magis elevatis, ad 
latera subcostatis. . 
Long. 1 lin. 
Hab.—Western Australia. 
