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rather slender, the basal three joints testaceous, the rest dark 

 piceous or black, joints 1 and 4 about equal to each other, 

 and each about equal to 2 and 3 together, 3 longer than 2. 

 Prothorax scarcely half as wide as the greatest width of the 

 elytra, about half again as wide as long, moderately narrowed to 

 the front, its angles a little thickened (the anterior nearly right, 

 the posterior obtuse), narrowed and widely produced hindwarcl 

 behind the hind angles, the front almost truncate. Elytral 

 epipleurse very well defined almost to the apex. Basal joint of 

 hind tarsi longer than the following three together. Claws 

 appendiculate. All the tibia mucronate. Anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



I think there is no doubt of the correctness of the reference of 

 this species to Candezea (not previously recorded as Australian) ; 

 at any rate this species and the following appear to be congeneric 

 with C. himaculata, Jac, from New Guinea, which their author 

 attributes to the genus. 



Northern Territory of South Australia ; taken by Dr. Bovill. 



C. JBovilli, sp. nov. Sat late oblonga ; sat nitida ; testacea ; 



antennis (basi exceptis) piceis ; elytris (humeris exceptis) 



fulvo piceis ; capite prothoraceque subtiliter sat crebre, 



elytris sat fortiter sat crebre, punctulatis. Long., 2^1.; 



lat., If 1. 



Each shoulder is testaceous on an area about as large as one of 



the eyes, and the testaceous colour is narrowly continued thence 



to the scutellum along the base ; the suture also is vaguely stained 



with testaceous near the base (probably the colour of the elytra 



is variable). The antennae and head scarcely differ from those of 



C. PaIme7'stoni, except in the latter being a little narrower ; the 



prothorax too resembles that of the same species, but is much 



more closely and strongly punctulate, with the angles more defined 



and thickened ; the puncturation of the elytra too is much 



stronger. There is a vague depression on either side of the disc 



of the prothorax. 



Northern Territory of South Australia ; a single specimen 

 taken by Dr. Bovill. 



MONOLEPTA. 



JI. anguJata, sp. nov. Oblonga ; sat nitida ; piceo-nigra ; 

 antennarum basi, ore, capite subtus postice, prosterno medio, 

 pedibusque testaceis ; capite supra postice, prothorace basi, 

 scutello et elytris gutta humerali fasciaque angulata ante 

 medium, fiavo-rufis ; capite sparsim subtilissime, prothorace 

 subtiliter minus sparsim, elytris fortius minus sparsim, 

 punctulatis. Long., 1-| 1. ; lat. ^ 1. 

 A furrow runs across the head between the eyes, curving for- 



