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shoulders squarer, the tubercles more numerous and more 

 obtuse — some of the basal ones on the inner interstice are 

 almost obsolete, and the basal one does not overhang the 

 prothorax. They also have a small but rather conspicuous 

 tubercle on each side of the scutellum. 



Amisallus whitei, Waterh. 

 Specimens of this species vary in length from 7J to 

 12 mm. The species occurs in the coastal districts of E. Aus- 

 tralia from the Clarence River, in New South Wales, to Mac- 

 kay, in Queensland. 



POLYPHRADES CONCINNUS, n. Sp. 



Blackish, appendages dull red. Very densely clothed 

 with soft white or whitish scales, in places on the upper sur- 

 face very feebly variegated with pale brown. With short 

 dense setae, not conspicuous on prothorax, but semierect on 

 elytra, on which they form two or three rows on each inter- 

 stice. 



Head wide. Eyes briefly ovate, strongly convex, finely 

 faceted. Rostrum slightly longer than wide, diminishing in 

 width from base to apex; apical plate feeble, not triangu- 

 lar, and not sharply limited; inter-antennary space convex, 

 rather narrow and almost parallel-sided. Scape thin, dis- 

 tinctly curved, passing eyes; first joint of funicle not much 

 longer than second, second slightly longer than third, the 

 others transverse ; club moderately long. Prothorax mode- 

 rately transverse, sides rather strongly rounded, base much 

 wider tiian apex. Elylra somewhat ovate, base almost trun- 

 cate and very closely applied to prothorax, widest at basal 

 fifth, thence strongly diminishing in width to apex. Front 

 tihia; rather long, moderately curved, feebly denticulate. 

 Length (excluding rostrum), 4-4| mm. 



Hah. — N.W. Australia: Roebuck Bay (C. French). 



A pretty little species, with more prominent eyes than 

 usual. In its very dense elytral setae it resembles setosus, but 

 the two species have little else in common. The scape when 

 drawn back passes the front margin of the prothorax, a 

 Cherrus-Uke character. On the head the scales mostly have 

 a silvery gloss, but on the muzzle and under surface they 

 mostly have a greenish or opalescent gloss. 



On abrasion the head is seen to have small and not very 

 dense punctures, and to be transversely impressed at its junc- 

 tion with rostrum. The rostral carina is very feeble. The 

 prothorax has dense and rather coarse punctures, and is with- 

 out granules. The punctures in the elytral striae are large 

 and not much narrower than the interstices; before abrasion, 

 however, they appear to be much narrower. 



