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elytra" to be the same as the " length of the underside from the 

 front of the intermediate coxte hind ward." The fuscous indu- 

 mentum covers the whole upper surface in all the examples I 

 have seen. I Iiave removed it with some difficulty from one 

 example, and find that the derm is very nitid with rows of large 

 punctures on the elytra. 

 Victoria. 



C rnfico7'nis, sp. nov. Mas. Sat elongatus ; piceus, indumento 

 squamoso pulverulento silaceo vestitus, antennis (clava 

 excepta) Isete rufo-testaceis ; rostro sat nitido crebre sat 

 subtiliter punctulato, quam caput paullo longiori nee 

 angustiori, supra profunde canaliculato (canali in frontem 

 continuato, in fundo carina antice triangulariter dilatata 

 instructo), prope basin utrinque sulco oculum fere attingenti 

 impresso; capite prothoraceque subtillissime confertim punctu- 

 latis et puncturis majoribus nonnullis impressis ; hoc sulcis 

 Vjrevibus foveisque sparsim confuse notato (his in exemplis 

 nonnullis magis profundis et crebrius dispositis sic ut pro- 

 thorax plus minus ve tuberculatus videtur) ; antennis sat 

 elongatis, funiculi articulo basali quam 2*^* 3''* (|ue conjunct! 

 vix breviori ; prothorace quam elyti'a sat latiori (exemplorum 

 nonnullorum vix latiori), quam longiori plus quam tertia 

 parte latiori, antice fortiter angustato, lateril^us fortiter 

 ampliato-rotundatis, lobis ocularibus fortiter productis ; 

 elytris quam prothorax vix duplo longioribus, ad basin quam 

 prothoracis basis haud latioribus, pone basin plus minusve 

 constrictis, hinc ad apicem elongato-ovalibus, ad latera 

 abrupte verticalibus, parte dorsali geminatim punctulato- 

 striata (interstitiis inter parium strias haud vel leviter 

 convexis, inter paria fortiter costatis), parte verticali punctu- 

 lato-striata (interstitiis minus convexis) ; pedibus anticis 

 fortiter elongatis. Long., 6| 1. ; lat., 2^ 1. 



Femina. Multo magis robusta, elytris <i[uam prothorax sat 

 latioribus ; fortiter convexa ; sculptura tota magis crassa, 

 pedibus anticis sat brevibus. Long., 7 1. ; lat., 3^ 1. 



Like most of its congeners, this species is so variable that it is 

 difficult to find two specimens identical inter se in respect of 

 sculpture, &c. In some examples the sulci on the prothorax are 

 few and lightly impressed, while in others they are so deep and 

 numerous that the surface appears profoundly vermiculate- 

 rugulose ; in some the interstices separating the two . stri.e of 

 each pair on the elytra are quite flat, while in others tliey are 

 more or less convex ; in some the elytral cosbe are quite smooth, 

 while in others they are more or less uneven ; in scjme males the 

 prothorax is scarcely wider than the elytra, while in others it is 



