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variegated with numerous spots of slaty-grey scales. Densely 

 clothed with long, thin, semidecumbent setae ; shorter, thinner, 

 and denser on under than on upper surface. Tibiae very 

 feebly ciliated. 



Rostrum with carina uncovered throughout. Antennae 

 thin; first joint of scape more than once and one-half the 

 length of second. Prothorax somewhat flattened, sides 

 strongly rounded in front, rather feebly behind : with dense, 

 more or less rounded and flattened, shining granules, not at 

 all concealed. Elytra conjointly feebly arcuate at base; with 

 punctures much narrower than interstices, and their size 

 not much altered in appearance by clothing ; interstices regu- 

 lar, with minute, scattered, depressed granules, and which are 

 quite invisible before abrasion. Abdomen densely granulate; 

 two basal segments largely and conjointly concave, apical 

 strongly convex. Legs stout, with feeble granules : front coxae 

 rather widely separated; tibiae feebly curved, but strongly in- 

 flated at apex. Length, 5|-6 mm. 



Female. Differs in being more robust, basal segments of 

 abdomen rather strongly convex, and the apical less so, and 

 the tibiae straighter. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Ulverstone (on sea-beach. A. M. Lea). 



Of the two males before me, one has the head, rostrum, 

 and apex of prothorax diluted with red, in the other these 

 parts are as dark as elsewhere ; in the only female no part 

 of the derm is quite black. The pale spots of scales on the 

 elytra are very numerous, and from certain directions appear 

 to form feeble, much-interrupted, transverse lines. On abra- 

 sion the head is seen to have small scattered granules. The 

 median prothoracic line is present on the female, but absent 

 from the males. 



Readily distinguished from most species by the entire 

 absence of scales from the pronotum, althous:h the setae there 

 are as dense as elsewhere. In the table it is placed near 

 reticulatus, but the two species have little in common. 



Mandalotus similis, n. sp. 



Male. Black; antennae and tarsi dull-red, other parts of 

 the legs very obscurely diluted with red. Densely covered 

 with muddy-brown scales. With subdecumbent set^, mostly 

 brown, but in places straw-coloured. Front tibice with long 

 and moderately dense ciliation, the others very feebly ciliated, 

 all the femora with long pale hair. 



Ttostrnm stout ; carina rather feeble, but distinct through- 

 out. Antennae rather thin. Profhoraor about as long as wide; 

 median line very narrow ; with minute scattered granules, 

 quite concealed normally. Snifellum small but distinct. 



