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ulatis), interstitiis (internis subconvexis externis planis) 
subtiliter crebrius punctulatis et sparsim granulatis; tibiis 
anticis sat brevibus, a basi ad apicem fortiter dilatatis, 
angulo externo apicali acuto; tarsis setis minus crassis 
subtus sparsim vestitis. Long., 4—4}3 1; lat., 23 1. 
This is a very distinct species owing to the presence of a short 
erect golden-fulvous pubescence rather closely clothing the upper 
surface. It is also well characterised by the strongly rounded 
sides of its prothorax, which are not in the least sinuous behind, 
and by the peculiar striation of its elytra, the sutural stria and 
the next to it on each elytron being well marked, while the rest 
of the striz are obliterated and their place supplied by mere rows 
of punctures. It is probably allied to H. villigerwm, Blanch. (from 
N.W. Australia), which I have not seen; but I do not think it is 
likely to be identical with villigerum as the pubescence of that 
insect is described as ‘‘sparse” and ‘of a grey color,” and the 
elytra as having “ well-marked impunctate strie.” The extreme 
remoteness iter se of the localities where the two species have 
been taken also points to specific distinctness. It is possible that 
this is the Hopatrwm taken by Mr. Walker at Port Adelaide, 
which Mr. Champion (Tr. Ent. Soc., 1894, p. 359) thinks is 
perhaps H. villigerum. 
S. Australia; near Adelaide; also on Yorke’s Peninsula. 
H. cowardense, sp. nov. Sat late ovale; subnitidum; nigrum, 
setulis pallidis minutis minus crebre vestitum ; capite modice 
lato, antice longitudinaliter sat crasse ruguloso, postice sub- 
tiliter granulato, clypeo antice fortiter arcuatim emarginato, 
ad latera minus fortiter (oculos parum excedenti) producto, 
oculis nullo modo divisis ; antennis prothoracis basin vix 
attingentibus, articulis 8-10 transversis; prothorace quam 
longiori plus quam duplo latiori, vix manifeste punctulato, 
obsoletissime (in lateribus magis distincte) granulato, antice 
profunde arcuatim emarginato, postice bisinuato, angulis 
anticis acutis posticis acute rectis retrorsum vix directis, 
latitudine majori mox ante basin posita ; scutello manifeste 
punctulato ; elytris sublevibus, punctis seriatis vix manifeste 
impressis, interstitiis planatis subcoriaceis subtilissime granu- 
latis ; corpore subtus pedibusque manifeste sat crebre squam- 
ose nec fortiter punctulatis ; tibiis anticis ad angulos acutos 
externos sat fortiter a basi dilatatis; tarsis sites subtus 
pilis sat elongatis sericeis vestitis. Long., 5 1.; lat., 24 1. 
This remarkable species has not a little of ite facies of 
Pteroheleus, but the fact of its tarsi being clothed with long 
hairs beneath (as in H. disperswm, Champ.), and of its clypeus 
being deeply excised after the Hopatrid fashion, shows that it 
