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scattered, short, decumbent pubescence, the legs thickly set with 

 intermixed long and shorter whitish hairs; black, the elytra brown 

 or reddish brown, the basal margin of the prothorax and the tibiae 

 and tarsi (in part) similarly colour' I in . , the mandibles rufous at 

 the base. Head transverse, large, broadly subtruncate at the base, 

 densely, confluently punctate, the eyes moderately large and some- 

 what prominent; antennae slender, joints 2 and 4 subccpial in 

 length, 3 longer than those following, 11 longer than 10. Pro- 

 thorax comparatively short, transversely globose, fully as wide 

 as the head, strongly rounded at the sides, the tubulate anterior 

 portion narrow and rather long, the basal groove deep; closely 

 impressed with shallow, rounded umbilicate punctures. Elytra 

 long, rapidly narrowed from the base in q, subparallel in $, con- 

 jointly rounded at the apex, transversely depressed on the disc 

 anteriorly; closely impressed with rather large foveiform punctures 

 which are separate one from another, the narrow, irregularly raised 

 interspaces shining and almost smooth. Tibiae strongly denticulate, 

 all more or less curved in $, straight er i 

 Length 71-11, breadth 2-3 mm. (J $.) 



Hob. New South Wales, Tweed River (W. W. Frog- 

 gait : $, type), Richmond River (Mns. Brit. : $); Queens- 

 land, Moreton Bay (Diggles, in Mas. Oxon. : $). 



Described from two <$<$ and one $ from N.S. Wales, the 

 Queensland example having testaceous antennae, but doubt- 

 less belonging to the same species. Near I. adusta, Pasc, 

 but with a much broader and more transverse prothorax. a 

 larger head, larger eyes, shorter antennae, and less con- 

 fused, foveiform elytral punctuation. /. (Egestria) rubi- 

 cunda, Macl. (type, $), from Cairns, must have a longer 

 prothorax. 



7. Ictistygna tenuis, n. sp. (Plate LXIII, fig. 5, <$.) 



Elongate, narrow (q), broader ($), dull, the elytra and under 

 surface shining; brown or ferruginous, the femora and tibiae in 

 part, and the head, prothorax, antennae, metasternum, and abdo- 

 men, often more or less infuscate; finely cinereo-pubescent, with 

 scattered, intermixed, long, erect, soft hairs, the cinereous pubes- 

 cence condensed into a narrow median vitta on the prothorax ; head 

 and prothorax densely, finely, the elytra coarsely and irregularly, 

 punctate. Head about as wide as the prothorax, well developed 

 behind the moderately large eyes, rounded at the Bides posteriorly; 

 antennae very slender, subfiliform, joints 4-10 slightly decreasing 

 in length, 2 shorter than 3, 3 and I subequal, 11 Bcaroely longer 



