400 Mi\ A. M. Lea on 



partially concealed punctures. Elytra oblong-snbcordate, 

 apex very obtusely rnucronate, shonlders and sides near 

 shoulders as in parvicotlis ; villi rows of larye more or less 

 conci'ak'd punctures ; interstices with dense punctures and 

 snuill f^rauules, mostly concealed ; the odd ones feebly 

 elevated in places, but the third rather distinctly subtuber- 

 culate towards base. Mesosternum and leys as in parviculUs. 



Length 9i mm. 



Hub. aue"ensland: Chillagoe {H. Hacker, his 1133). 



To the naked eye the elytra appear to be clotlied mostly 

 with snuff-coloured scales and to have a distinct median 

 fascia of white scales, with the base and basal portion of the 

 suture white ; the durk patches, however, aie due partly to 

 the pale scales being very fine and sparse, but principally to 

 a snuff-coloured meal. On the under surface also the meal 

 is fairl}' dense in parts, but the scales there being rather 

 large, and of almost uniform size, their a[)pearance is not so 

 much altered by it. In jjeneral appearance it is much like 

 the preceding species^ from which it differs in being some- 

 what narrower and by a pale fascia replacing the dark 

 median one of that species. Both species (there are two of 

 each before me) have a pale elytral fascia and remnants of 

 others ; but on the present species the exact middle of the 

 elytra is covered by it, in the preceding s[)ecies it is entirely 

 beyond the exact middle. The prothorax has a few small 

 granules showing through the scales ; on each side towards 

 the apex there is a feeble longitudinal depression, where the 

 scales are tiiinner and the meal denser than elsewhere. The 

 shape is somewhat as in b'llunaris, but the pale band is 

 wider, of different shape, slightly nearer the base, &c. In 

 some respects it is close to the description of arciferus, but 

 is larger, rostrum not elongate, median fascia composed of 

 true scales, not at all resenabling hairs, eyes distaut, &c. 



Tins species is so obviously close to the preceding one 

 that it is advisable that it should be described at the same 

 time, although the types were not taken by Mr. Bryant. 



Oxyops concreta, Pasc. Ourimbah. 



0. irrasa, Pasc. National Park, Sydney. 



O.fasciata, Boi. Quirindi, National Park, Mundaring. 



O. reticulata, Boi. Sydney, Blue Mountains. 



0. fasciculata, Redt. Sydney. 



O. amplipennis, Tjca. Blue Mountains. 



