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utrinque foveolato puuctulato, elytris striatis. Yar. ? 

 Minor ; elytris totis (sutura margineque laterali postice 

 exceptis) piceis. Long. If — 2 1. 



This species is rather closely allied to the preceding. The 

 "thorax is slightly less transverse (its width being scarcely one- 

 third greater than its length), with some puncturation about 

 the posterior angles which are obtuse, but well defined ; the 

 elytra are more strongly striated, and the striae do not become 

 obsolete laterally ; the puncture on the third interstice is 

 wanting ; the colour is different also, the dark portion of each 

 ■elytron being bordered all round (except along a portion of the 

 base in some specimens) with a red colour similar to that of 

 the thorax. In the male the tarsal structure is as Mr. Bates 

 describes it in Thenarotes. There is no abbreviated scutellar 

 stria in any of the specimens that have come under my notice, 

 but I do not attach great importance to this character, since I 

 find traces of a stria in some specimens, and not in others, of 

 the preceding species. I also observe that the antennae are 

 •exceptionally short in some specimens both of this and of the 

 preceding ; probably it indicates a sexual distinction. 



Near Adelaide; also Sedan (Rothe). 



T. metalUcics, sp. nov. Minus nitidus ; seneo-niger, antennis 



palpis pedibusque pallidis ; antennis corporis dimidio lon- 



gitudine aequalibus ; prothorace transverso, postice angus- 



. tato, angulis posticis obtusis ; elytrorum disco obsolete 



striato. Long. If — If 1. 



This species does not appear to differ from Thejiarotes except 

 in the very slight dilatation of the anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi in the male. The thorax is strongly transverse (not 

 much less than twice as wide as long), widest in front of the 

 middle, with the sides rounded, the posterior angles obtuse, 

 and an ill-defined fovea on either side behind. The elytra are 

 elongate and parallel, with about three traceable striae, outside 

 which there are no distinct striae, but there is a rather strong 

 furrow representing the apical portion of about the seventh 

 stria. The whole surface of the insect is finely coriaceous. It 

 has much the facies of Metahletus. 



I have two specimens taken in the Adelaide district. 



xoTOPHiLrs, ffen. nov. 



(Sub-Fam. Anisodactylin^.) 



'Gen. Thenaroti affinis, at tarsorum 4 anteriorum plantis 1-4 



squamipilosis ; corpus convexius minus elongatum. 



The species for which I have founded this genus do not 



.appear to differ from Thenarotes structurally otherwise than in 



