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Very near the preceding in all structural characters, but very 

 different in colouring and sculpture, the prothorax being much 

 more closely punctured, the elytra more finely and closely punc- 

 tured and more feebly striated, ttc. The eyes are somewhat 

 larger, and still more approximated, the interval between them 

 being only about half as wide as the width of either eye looked at 

 from above ; this may be sexual, but I find no decided character 

 to indicate the sex of either species, and incline to think that 

 both examples are males. 



Queensland ; sent from Brisbane by F. M. Bailey, Esq. 



IL rugnlosa, Boisd. (J). Modice elongata ; sat parallela ; minus 

 convexa ; nitida ; pilis elongatis erectis sat crebre vestita ; 

 fusca, capite et corporis subtus partibus nonnullis fere nigris, 

 elytrorum sutura rufa ; capite sat sparsim minus crebre 

 punctulato, oculis modice appix)ximatis ; prothorace quam 

 longiori fere dimidio (postice quam antice hand multo) 

 latiori, sparsim fortiter punctulato, late leviter canaliculato, 

 ante basin utrinque impresso, lateribus modice arcuatis, basi 

 leviter bisinuata, angulis posticis leviter obtusis ; elytris vix 

 striatis, potius puncturis sat magnis seriatim ornatis, inter- 

 stitiis sat planis sparsim seriatim punctulatis postice sub- 

 rugulosis ; antennis quam corporis dimidium longioribus ; 

 articulo 3° quam 4"' paullo breviori ; corpore subtus sparsim 

 minus fortiter punctulato, segmento ventrali apicali plus 

 minusve profunde impresso. 

 Claris quam feminte antennis longioribus, paullo magis com- 

 pressis (exempli typici articulis 9-11 carentibus). Long., 

 2± l.-3| 1. ; lat., -f l.-l 1. 



This species has much resemblance to the preceding, but is at 

 once distinguisliable from all its allies known to me by the long 

 erect pilosity with which it is clothed and the brightly nitid very 

 thinly punctured interstices of its elytral striae, which become a 

 little uneven and transversely rugulose towards the apex. The 

 interval between the eyes is much less in both sexes than the 

 width of either eye as seen from above. Unless the type of 

 Allecula rugulosa, Boisd., can be referred to it will be impossible 

 to identify any species with it except doubtfully, as the descrip- 

 tion (of eight words) is quite insufficient, but the colour and 

 pilosity, as mentioned, agreeing with the specimens before me, 

 and being unusual in the genus, and the species before me being 

 a widely distributed one, is very likely to be what Boisduval 

 described. 



S. Australia and Victoria. 



IL limhata, sjd. nov. Sat elongata ; modice parallela, antice 

 posticeque angustata ; minus convexa ; nitida ; pilis minus 



