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individuals those on the front part being so extended as almost 
to cover the basal half of the surface. 
N.S. Wales ; taken by Mr. Lea at Whitton. 
RHACHIODES. 
Rh. strenuus, sp. nov. Sat latus; fere subquadratus ; piceus, 
rostro antennis pedibusque rufescentibus ; squamis vestitus 
(his in elytrorum parte antica griseis, in parte postica fulvis, 
in spatio intermedio laterali triangulari albis) ; prothorace 
transverso crebre subtiliter ruguloso et sparsim granulato, 
haud tuberculis majoribus munito ; elytris punctulato-striatis 
et tuberculis quinis fasciculatis ornatis (sc., 2 in interstitio 
2, 4 in 4’,2 in 5°).) bong. (rostr. incl.) 32.1, 5 Janeane 
A rather short, wide and quadrate species, very distinct by its 
prettily-arranged squamosity. Regarding the grey scales as 
forming the ground-colour, the markings consist of bright fulvous 
scales clothing the front and sides of the prothorax and the 
apical one-third of the elytra, and a somewhat triangular patch 
of white scales on each elytron having its base about the middle 
of the lateral margin. The prothorax is devoid of tubercles, but 
a number of small granules are scattered confusedly over its sur- 
face. On the elytra there is a good-sized fasciculated tubercle on 
each side of the suture scarcely in front of its middle, another of 
about equal size near the apex of the fifth interstice, a very small 
one (scarcely more than a granule) in the front part of the fifth 
interstice, and two of moderate size on each elytron (on the second 
and 4th interstices respectively) a little behind the anterior of 
the two larger tubercles, forming with their fellows of the other 
elytron a continuous curved transverse series. The outward- 
directed prominence of the elytra below the shoulder is feebler 
than in most others of the genus. 
N. Queensland. 
f. forcipatus, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, elytris sat parallelis ; 
piceus antennis pedibusque rufescentibus ; squamis griseis 
sat equaliter vestitus; prothorace vix transverso, crebre 
subtiliter ruguloso sparsim granulato, tuberculis 4 transversim 
positis munito ; elytris punctulato-striatis et tuberculis quinis 
(ut speciei preecedentis positis) ornatis, angulo subhumerali 
fortiter prominenti. Long. (rostr. incl.), 241.; lat., 11. 
This little species is nearer to &. dentifer, Bohem., than to any 
other described species, with which it agrees in the number and 
general arrangement of the tubercles on the prothorax and elytra, 
except as follows :—In both species the three tubercles placed on 
the middle part of each elytron may be regarded as enclosing 
with their fellows on the other elytron a common discal space 
which in dentifer is transversely oval, and in this species almost 
