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margin a little in front of its middle) is clothed with pale-grey 

 pubescence very conspicuously mottled with orange ; the remain- 

 der of the elytra is clothed with ferruginous pubescence obscurely 

 marked with greyish patches and numerous small ])ut conspicuous 

 and well-defined orange spots. On each elytron there are about 

 20 shining black pointed granules of moderate size placed almost 

 entirely on the pale triangular patch, and running somewhat 

 irregularly in about five longitudinal rows. The prothorax is 

 about one-third again as wide as long, widest at the base, and 

 narrowed to the front, the sides not toothed, and almost straiglit. 

 The undersurface is clothed with whitish pubescence, the sides of 

 the metasternum, the hinder part of each ventral segment, and 

 various small spots being orange. The pubescence of the legs is 

 for the most part brownish or fulvous, but it is whitish-grey on 

 the undersurface of the femora. My example is a male ; its an- 

 terior coxj>9 are not spined ; its second ventral segment has on 

 either side a large patch of dense silky pubescence (of pale-brown 

 colour) as in pitbiventris, Pasc. The antennae are scarcely longer 

 than the whole body ; they are clothed with ferruginous pubes- 

 cence, the extreme base and undersurface of the joints whitish, 

 the undersurface with a close-set fringe of long pale-brow^n hair. 

 South Australia ; Port Lincoln district. 



PLATYOMOPSIS. 



P. Frenchi, sp. nov. Picescens ; pube cinerea et fumicolori dense 

 vestita ; prothorace tuberculis circiter 8 vix pone medium 

 serie transversali positis ; ejytris apice truncatis, tuberculis 

 numerosis (longitudinaliter seriatim dispositis) instructis, 

 his pone partem basalem apicem versus gradatim minoribus, 

 pube fumicolori Immeros apicemque versus disposita et 

 maculam subrotundam fere nigram in medio marginis lateralis 

 formanti. Long., 71.; lat., 2| 1. 



The close-set pubescence covers the whole surface so densely 

 that the derm (excepting the nitid tubercles) is entirely concealed. 

 The general colour is ashy white, with a slightly ferruginous tone 

 on the head and sterna. The appearance of markings caused by 

 the presence of smoky-coloured pubescence takes the form of an 

 ill-defined patch on the shoulder, a large well-defined sjDot on each 

 side at about half the length of the elytra (round about which 

 the whitish pubescence is at its whitest), and a large obscure 

 apical patch, the front margin of which slopes away hindward on 

 either side from the suture just behind its middle, reacliing the 

 lateral margin at a distance from the apex of about a third of its 

 whole length. The row of eight small tubercles (of which the 

 middle two are the largest, they only projecting above the 

 pubescence), placed in a sinuous line, with its ends near the front 



