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segments wrinkled as well ; basal with a narrow curved api- 

 cal carina. Ler/s strong; front coxae rather widely separated; 

 tibiae granulate below, rather strongly inflated at apex, the 

 front pair more noticeably curved than the others. Length, 

 54-6 mm. 



Female. Differs in being rather more robust, abdomen 

 more convex, less wrinkled, and non-carinate, and the tibiae 

 straighter. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Ulverstone, Swansea (A. M. Lea). 



A narrow species readily distinguished from most others 

 by the scarcely emarginate base of elytra and shining scu- 

 tellum, the latter being distinct in all the numerous speci- 

 mens before me. The scales on the upper surface are some- 

 times quite uniform in colour, but they are often variegated 

 with spots of paler scales; towards the apex of the elytra there 

 are often patches of pale and dark scales, quite strongly con- 

 trasted. The setae of the legs are unusually long. The scales 

 of the prothorax are very readily abraded, so that its disc 

 often appears to be almost glabrous. The rostral carina is 

 distinctly traceable throughout ; behind it, on the head, there 

 is a distinctly impressed line. The abdominal carina at its 

 middle touches the apex of the segment, but it is not very 

 conspicuous, owing to the way that segment is wrinkled, and 

 it does not extend across one-third of the width. The species 

 is abundant at the roots of beach-growing plants. 



Mandalotus Sydneyensis, n. sp. 



Male. Dark, reddish-brown ; coxae and apex of abdomen 

 paler, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi still paler. Densely clothed 

 with slaty-grey scales, mottled with small spots of brown. 

 Clothed with long, thin, pale, semi-erect setas. Tibiae ciliated. 



Rostrum with moderately distinct carina. Antennae thin, 

 first joint of funicle not much longer than second. Prothorax 

 much as in the preceding species, except that the granules 

 are not so distinct; elytra shorter, but otherwise much the 

 same. Scutellum absent, or at least not visible. Abdomen 

 as in the preceding species, except that the punctures are 

 stronger, the wrinkles less conspicuous and the carina more 

 so. Le(/s much the same. Length, 5 mm. 



//«&.— New South Wales: Sydney (H. W. Cox). 



In appearance close to the preceding species, with which 

 it agrees in the subtruncate base of elytra and in the sexual 

 differences, but it is shorter and with the setae (especially on 

 the elytra) distinctly longer : the scutellum also appears to 

 be quite absent. The rostral carina, although not covered 

 with scales, is partly obscured by setae. 



