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hair : pectoral canal almost glabrous ; legs and liead densely 
clothed, the scales feebly vai-iegated. 
licdd and rostrum coarsely and irregularly punctate, 
punctures on the latter scarcely seriate in arrangement, but 
leaving a feeble, longitudinal, impunctate space. Scape in- 
serted two-fifths from apex, slightly shorter than funicle. 
VrotJionir moderately transverse, witli dense, moderately 
large, round, clearly defined punctures, which are scarcely 
smaller at apex and larger on flanks than on disc. Elytra 
subcordate : seriate-punctate, punctures large, oblong, all 
connected together ; interstices gently convex, the width of 
or slightly wider than punctures, with sparse punctures. 
Ahdomei} with dense and irregular punctures, none of which 
is very large, third and fourth segments each with a single 
row of squamose punctures. Length, 4 A : rostrum, 1^- : width, 
mm. 
Hah. — New South "Wales: Sydney (at roots of beach- 
growing plants). 
The clothing of the under surface is most remarkable, 
and, except in the following species, is dissimilar to that of 
anv other : two specimens are under examination, and are 
probably both males. The colour of the derm is of a brown- 
ish-red, the elytra and legs rather less dark than elsewhere. 
Each prothoracic puncture contains a scale, but along middle 
and towards sides these scales are stouter and paler than else- 
where, and cause three feeble stripes to appear. The elytra I 
punctures cause an appearance as of deep, continuous striae, 
the walls of which are slightly waved. I know of no other 
species having similar punctures, although there is a slight 
approach to them in spis^us. 
Decilaus tibialis, n. sp. 
Male. Upper surface moderately densely clothed with 
stout, sooty scales, interspersed with small spots of pale 
brownish scales. Under surface, legs, head, and rostrum 
with pale brownish scales, the legs feebly ringed with sooty 
ones ; middle of metasternum and two basal segments of ab- 
domen, and the four posterior coxae clothed with very long 
recurved golden setae or hairs. 
Punctures of head and rostrum (except in front of an- 
tennae, where they are moderately dense and coarse) con- 
cealed, on the latter evidently subseriate in arrangement. 
Scape inserted one-third from apex, the length of four fol- 
lowing joints, two basal subequal ; club elongate-ovate. Fro- 
thorax moderately transverse, base feebly but distinctly bi- 
sinuate, apex less than half the width of base ; with (for the 
genus) rather small punctures, less crowded than usual, but 
