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gradatim minus fortiter minus ruajulose, — apicem versus sub- 

 laevibus) punctulatis ; tarsis sat latis (ut 0. albipilosce, 

 Pasc). Long., 9|— 11^ l.j lat., 2i— 24 1. 

 The basal joint of the antennae is quite as strongly arched as in 

 0. albipilosa, the first, third, and fourth joints about equal in 

 length, the following joints longer. The nitid spaces on the 

 pronotum are a wide median continuous vitta, a round spot on 

 either side close to the front, and a basal fascia (ill developed) 

 which is conspicuously produced forward and obliquely outward 

 to the front margin but becoming ill-developed in front. This 

 species can be at once distinguished from all the previously 

 described Opsidotce by, inter alia, the large and conspicuous nitid 

 spaces on its pronotum. I am uncertain of the sex of the two 

 specimens before me but I judge them to be males from the 

 strong appendiculation of the apical joint of their antenna? and 

 the shortness of their apical ventral segment. The antennje are 

 less strongly compressed than in the male of albipilosa and the 

 head is not quite so short as in that species, but it is very much 

 shorter than in Strongylnrus. 



X. Queensland (Port Mackay j sent by Mr. French). 



PROSOPLUS. 



P. {Niphona) torosa, Pasc. There is a specimen from N.W. 

 Australia in the S. Australian Museum agreeing so well with 

 the description of this species that I cannot doubt its identity. 

 Mr. Pascoe gives " S. Australia" as the habitat. I have never, 

 however, seen an example taken in S.A., nor do I know of any 

 Coleojjtera (except some well-known to be found all over Aus- 

 tralia) common to S.A. and N.W.A. I suspect therefore that 

 Pascoe's statement of habitat is incorrect unless it designates 

 *' the Northern Territory" under the term "South Australia." 



ANCITA. 



A. dispar, sp. no v. Picea, tomento cinereo ochraceo et fusco 

 variegata, labro antennis pedibusque plus minusve rufe- 

 scentibus ; capite prothoraceque dense subgranulose punc- 

 tulatis ; hoc ante medium transversim sulcato, utrinque in 

 dorso sat fortiter gibboso et ad latus tuberculo magno acuto 

 armato, linea mediana plus minusve impressa et granulis 

 magnis nitidis nonnuUis instructo ; elytris costulis discoidali- 

 bus binis tuberculis binis parvis anticis (his oblique paullo 

 pone basin positis) et tuberculis 4 vel 5 posticis (his trans- 

 versim sat longe pone medium positis) ornatis, fortiter sat 

 crebre punctulatis ; antennis 11-articulatis. 

 Maris antennis quam corpus sat longioribus, feminae elytrorum 



apicem vix attingentibus. Long., 5f — 6^ L; lat., 2J — 3 1. 

 This species is easily recognisable by the arrangement of the 



