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clothed with black scales, becoming greyish on parts of the 

 legs and under surface ; with short, stout, more or less de- 

 cumbent setae. 



ll()i<trum stout ; carina covered with scales, but feebly 

 traceable throughout. Antennae moderately stout. Froth <>- 

 rax moderately transverse, sides strongly rounded ; median 

 line partly concealed ; with numerous large, rounded granules 

 or small tubercles, not very clearly traceable through cloth- 

 ing. EJiitra conjointly but not quite regularly arcuate at 

 base, subtuberculate in places, and especially about posterior 

 declivity ; with large, round, almost concealed punctures. Ah- 

 domen feebly convex. Legs stout ; front coxae widely sepa- 

 rated ; tibiae feebly curved, the posterior almost straight. 

 Length, 6-7 mm. 



Hah.—^e^ South Wales: Blue Mountains (E. W. Fer- 

 guson). 



On the prothorax the setae vary from straw-coloured to 

 black, on the elytra they are nearly all deep black, and are 

 short, stout, and very irregularly distributed. The elytral 

 punctures are as wide as the interstices, but the clothing is 

 so dense that they appear m-uch smaller, and many are quite 

 concealed. 



Two specimens are before me, both apparently of one 

 sex, and probably females. I have described them, however, 

 as even as females they reuresent a very distinct species. In 

 build they have a certain resemblance to ampJiroIlis, but 

 apart from the clothing, the emargination of apex of pro- 

 sternum is much less sudden and deep. 



Mandalotus Coatesi, n. sp. 



Male. Black; antennae, legs, and apical half of abdo- 

 men reddish. Densely clothed with uniformly pale muddy- 

 brown scales. With stout and rather pale setae, sparser, and 

 more irregularly distributed on elytra than elsewhere : under 

 surface with thin setae. Front tibiae densely ciliated. 



Rostrum stout, antennae rather thin. Prothorax feebly 

 transverse, sides regularly rounded ; median line partly con- 

 cealed ; with numerous, large, round, flattened granules, read- 

 ily traceable through clothing. Elytra trisinuate at base : 

 subtuberculate in places : with large, round punctures, much 

 wider than interstices, but appearing much narrower through 

 clothing. Abdomen granulate, two basal segments feebly 

 concave. Ler/fi stout ; front coxae widely separated : tibiae 

 granulate below, front pair strongly curved at apex, hind 

 pair dilated to middle, then suddenly narrowed towards (but 

 not at) apex. Length, 4^ mm. 



Female. Differs in being more robust, elytral punctures 



