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cate towards apex. Upper surface (except for a small amount 

 of pubescence near eyes and on scutellum) glabrous; under 

 surface with dense regular white pubescence. 



Head longer than usual; punctate-granulate between 

 eyes and densely punctate elsewhere. Rostrum slightly longer 

 than prothorax, feebly inflated at insertion of antennae; in 

 male with coarse punctures and a distinct median impression 

 behind antennae, and impunctate elsewhere; in female with- 

 out the median impression and with coarse punctures at ex- 

 treme base only. Antennae long and very thin, first and third 

 joints subequal, eleventh shorter than ninth and tenth com- 

 bined. Frothorax (for the genus) rather feebly inflated to- 

 wards base, median channel very feeble, densely and finely 

 granulate. Scutellum almost round. Elytra not at all 

 depressed along suture, each separately strongly rounded at 

 base, apex gently and regularly narrowed and passing abdo- 

 men for a very short distance ; with dense punctures rather 

 larger towards base than elsewhere, and in almost regular, 

 closely placed rows. Under surface wdth dense but more or 

 less concealed punctures. Femora edentate, front pair rather 

 stout, especially in female, hind pair just passing apex of 

 basal abdominal segment; tibiae longer than usual, the front 

 pair feebly the others very feebly denticulate below; basal 

 joint of all the tarsi much longer than usual. Length, 

 8-9 mm. 



II ah. — New South Wales: Forest Reefs, Armidale; 

 Tasmania: Ulverstone (A. M. Lea). 



A very thin species. The type is a male ; a female differs 

 from it in having the rostrum entirely red, and a transverse 

 space behind the eyes diluted with red. To the naked eye 

 there appear to be small nude spots at the sides of the 

 abdomen, but this appearance is due solely to the colour of 

 the derm, except in the single Tasmanian specimen, where 

 they are really present. The elytra from some directions ap- 

 pear to be closely covered with rows of granules, but there 

 are two quite regular rows of granules on the suture itself. 



In general appearance remarkably close to a Western 

 Australian species which I have identified as acicularis, and 

 which has the antennae more noticeably (although not 

 strongly) inflated towards the apex, with the eleventh joint 

 but little more than twice as long as wide, and the tenth 

 much less than twice as long as wide. In the present species 

 the eleventh joint is more than three times as long as its 

 greatest width, and its tenth joint is slightly more than 

 twice as long as wide. In the Western Australian specimens 

 also the basal joint is almost black (a character not men- 



