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//^//>.— Tasmania : liobart, Huon River, Stonor. Parat- 

 tah, etc. 



The majority of the scales are of a dull-brown colour, 

 but the sides of the prothorax and of the elytra are often 

 supplied with more or less large patches of dingy-whitish 

 scales, occasionally tinged with pale blue (but never shining), 

 the white scales may also form small spots on the disc of 

 the elytra and clothe the shoulders and a space between each 

 shoulder and the scutellum ; on the prothorax they are often 

 condensed into feeble lines (two or three) on each side ; white 

 scales also occasionally surround the eyes and form feeble 

 rings on the femora. On the upper surface the scales are 

 more numerous than the setse, on the lower the reverse is 

 the case. The scrobes on abraded specimens can be quite 

 distinctly followed to the eyes, but on perfect specimens do 

 not appear to extend so far ; on perfect specimens also the 

 front parts appear to be much deeper than they really are ; 

 the front halves are arcuate and the scapes are so inserted 

 that the portion in front of each would extend halfway to 

 its fellow. On perfect specimens the only punctures which 

 are visible are some forming series on the elytra, and these 

 are distinct only at the base. But on abrasion the head, ros- 

 trum, prothorax, and tibiae are seen to be densely covered 

 with small punctures, on the prothorax these are often more 

 or less confluent, and leave some subgranular spaces* and a 

 feeble median elevated line (scarcety a carina.) | : elytra with 

 regular series of large punctures becoming smaller poster- 

 iorly, the interstices separately gently convex and much wider 

 than punctures, especially in the female ; sterna and two 

 basal segments of abdomen transversely strigose as well as 

 punctate. 



On only one specimen before me are the deciduous man- 

 dibular appendages present, they are unusually small (scar- 

 cely longfer than the basal joint of funicle), curved out- 

 wardly, dilated to the middle internally and of a reddish 

 colour. 



The female differs fmm tlie male in being larger, the 

 elytra wider and the basal seg'ment of abdomen convex (in- 

 stead of concave) in the middle. In several females before 

 me portion of the ovipositor is protruding, and to all appear- 

 ance is a hornv reddish sheath to a penis ; the resemblance 



* Thoso siib^rainilar sj)aces are not tliemsolves piinctat'e. and 

 ac.p much less distinct than the pnnctnres. characters it is as well 

 to mention, as thei^e is a common (and apDarently undescribed) 

 species which cl^^scly rosemhlos this, Init differs in the charact-ers 

 mentioned. 



t This; is sometimes visil)lo l)ofore abrasion. 



