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low, the others rather feebly bisinuate. Length, 4J-5J mm. 



Female. Differs in having the prothorax narrower and 

 elytra wider, abdomen simple, appendages shorter, tibiae 

 stouter, the front pair much less strongly bisinuate and the 

 others almost straight. 



Hah. — Tasmania (Macleay Museum): King Island (Jas. 

 A. Kershaw and A. M. Lea) ; Victoria : Mordialloc (National 

 Museum). 



The scales on most of the specimens before me (except for 

 feeble rings on the legs) are quite uniformly coloured, but 

 on some there are very feeble traces of pale spots. The setse 

 are rather denser and longer than usual, although not so 

 dense or thin as in variahihs : they are mostly dark-brown in 

 colour, but many are straw-coloured ; on the lower surface 

 they are thinner than on the upper. The prothoracic granules 

 are rather large and less uniform than in the two preceding 

 species, but are much less distinct through the clothing. Many 

 of the elytral punctures are also scarcely traceable, but on 

 abrasion they are seen to be much wider than the interstices, 

 and not in quite regular rows ; the interstices themselves are 

 decidedly irregular, and on abrasion are seen to be highly 

 polished and without punctures. The subtubercular eleva- 

 tions vary on different specimens. 



The male has an abdominal plate somewhat as in ven- 

 tralis ; but the flattened space is transverse and does not in- 

 fringe on the second segment; in venfralis the first segment 

 along its middle is about thrice the length of the second ; but 

 in the present species the first is but slightly longer than the 

 second. The carina also appears almost to connect the hind 

 00X36 together ; at its apex it does not touch the apex 

 of the segment ; and the tibiae are very different. 



Mandalotus longicollis, n. sp. 



Male. Black; antennae, tibiae (partly or entirely), and 

 tarsi reddish. Densely clothed with dark muddy-brown scales, 

 with rather stout, semi-decumbent setae. Tibiae fringed with 

 long cilia. 



Rostrum with a narrow carina, more or less concealed, 

 except towards apex. Antennae rather thin. Prothorax (by 

 measurement) slightly longer than wide, sides regularly 

 rounded ; median line narrow and partly concealed ; with 

 numerous fairly large, rounded (scarcely flattened) granules, 

 not very distinct before abrasion. Elytra strongly trisinu- 

 ate at base, interstices subtuberculate in places, with rows of 

 large more or less concealed punctures. Abdomen with a 

 flattened space curved towards and extending almost to apex, 

 and bounded behind by a feeble carina, apex feebly incurv- 



