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more or less erect setse, more noticeable on elytra than on 

 prothorax. Club with black sensitized pubescence. 



Head moderately wide. Eyes large, ovate, finely faceted. 

 Rostrum distinctly, but not much, longer than wide, sides 

 very feebly increasing in width almost to apex; inter-anten- 

 nary space fairly wide, parallel-sided, widely depressed and 

 apparently feebly carinated along middle; apical plate sharply 

 defined, curvilinearly triangular, with dense punctures. 

 Antennae rather stout; scape almost straight, just passing 

 eye; first joint of funicle as long as the two following com- 

 bined, second distinctly longer than third, the others rather 

 feebly transverse; club elongate-ovate, with black sensitized 

 pubescence. Prothorax lightly transverse, sides strongly and 

 regularly rounded, base, if anything, slightly narrower than 

 apex, the latter slightly sinuous. Elytra cordate, widest 

 (and considerably wider than prothorax) near base, thence 

 strongly diminishing in width to apex. Front tihice rather 

 long, feebly curved, denticulate, but with a strong apical 

 spur. Length, 7J mm. 



^«6. - -Queensland : between Charters Towers and Clon- 

 curry (H. Hacker). 



The elytra are quite remarkably heart-shaped ; even more 

 so than in tumidulus. Compared with that species it differs 

 in the elytra having longer and more erect setae, the pro- 

 thorax more globose, the rostrum with normal triangular 

 plate, the space between the scrobes narrower and differently 

 shaped, eyes less coarsely faceted, etc. The scape when ex- 

 tended forwards appears to be too short to reach the hind 

 margin of the eye, but when drawn backwards just passes 

 it. The spur at the apex of the tibiae is very conspicuous, 

 and is not at all concealed by clothing. 



Where I have abraded the head of the unique specimen 

 before me it is seen to be covered with small granules and 

 small dense punctures, but I have not abraded much of it, 

 nor any portion of the rostrum. The prothorax has dense 

 granules (a few of which are traceable before abrasion) and 

 numerous small punctures. The punctures in the elytral 

 striae are large, but normally greatly obscured by the 

 clothing. 



SUBFAMILY GONIPTERTDES. 



OXYOPS FRENCHI, U. Sp. 



Black; muzzle, antennae, and parts of legs obscurely 

 diluted with red. Rather densely clothed with short stout 

 setose whitish scales, becoming setae on antennae and parts 

 of legs. 



