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Maris segmento ventrali 2° antice area transversim parallels 

 segmentum medium haud attingeiiti dense pilosa instructo. 

 Long., 7—9 1.; lat., 21—3 1. 

 An extremely uniformly coloured species appearing to a casual 

 glance of a continuous pale fulvous tone everywhere except that 

 the elytra are gradually and more or less distinctly paler towards 

 the sides (in one example almost whitish at the palest part), the 

 pale colouring being usually somewha>t dilated inward in a sub- 

 triangular form slightly in front of the middle. The pubescence 

 is extremely close entirely concealing the derm everywhere and 

 when closely examined is seen to be closely mottled with two 

 slightly different shades, — one nearly pure brown, the other 

 more reddish. Distinctive characters are (a) the tubercles, — or 

 rather granules scarcely larger than those of the elytra, — on the 

 pronotum (two widely separated and placed transversely on the 

 middle of the disc and two similar ones placed transversely close 

 together considerably behind the other pair, also several on the 

 lateral outline); (6) the regular longitudinal rows of granules oa 

 the elytra, — the subsutural row very short, the next longer, the 

 external row passing the middle of the elytra, — these granules 

 beinsc glabrous ; (c) the antennae shorter than the body in both 

 sexes ; (d) the unusual form of the pubescent area on the (appa- 

 rently) second ventral segment of the male which appears like a 

 mere transverse band of pilosity not nearly reaching the middle 

 of the segment, — its hind margin straight. The apex of the 

 elytra is so densely pilose that it is difficult to be sure of its 

 shape ; and from one point of view it seems to be rounded, from 

 another feebly truncate. 



I cannot make this species fit the description of any of Mr. 

 Pascoe's species of Symphyletes, but they are so brief and vague 

 that certainty is scarcely possible. The species that seem to be 

 most like it, however, have elytra either crested or spinose at the 

 base, or at the apex very different from those of the present 

 insect. 



N.W. Australia (in S.A. Museum; also sent by Mr. Masters). 

 S. fasciafus, sp. nov. Sat robustus ; piceus, pube cinerea et ochrea 

 sat dense (sed in elytrorum partibus basalibus et apicali- 

 bus sparsim maculatim) vestitus, pedibus rufis ; capite haud 

 convexo-elevato, linea nigra longitudinali impresso, sparsim 

 punctulato, clypeo antice truncato ; oculis sat magnis (quam 

 aS*. nodosi, Newm., perspicue majoribus); antennis subtus sat 

 dense ciliatis ; prothorace insequali (pone apicem transversim 

 late concavo, in disco medio tuberculis parvis 2 — his linea 

 subtili connexis — et postice inque lateribus tuberculis sub- 

 obsoletis nonnuUis munito) ; elytris in parte dimidia antica 

 subseriatim granuliferis sed haud cristatis, sat crebre minus 



