236 



Xotes OH above table. 



D. In scalar '!.■< and hrti uncus, the white elytral clothing, 

 although confined to the suture, in places appears as spots. 



E. In phcenicopterus, anipUcoJlis, biu nneus, and some 

 others the suture is slightly elevated at the base; but in 

 all the species included in E the elevation is strong and 

 sudden. 



00. In the variety (jraauJatus the suture is irregularly 

 spotted about the middle. 



G. The apex of the prothorax (but not its disc) is some- 

 times stained with black. 



HH. In acacia, and vetustus, however, it is very little 

 shorter. 



Rhinotia simplicipennis, n. sp. 



Black, mandibles and appendages more or less diluted 

 with red, prothorax and elytra reddish flavous, two stripes 

 on prothorax and scutellum darker. Clothed with line 

 pubescence. 



Head with very dense punctures. Rostrum slightly longer 

 than prothorax and scutellum combined; with punctures 

 behind antennas much as on head, and with a feeble median 

 carina or impunctate line, elsewhere with small and sparse 

 punctures. Antennas (for the genus) rather thin, first joint 

 almost as long as second and third combined. Prothoraj: 

 scarcely wider than long, sides rather feebly rounded, median 

 line distinctly impressed on basal half only; with dense but 

 more or less concealed punctures. Elytra very feebly im- 

 pressed on each side of suture, apex conjointly rounded; with 

 almost regular series of rather large punctures. Femora 

 stout, the front pair stouter than the others and acutely 

 bidentate, the teeth transversely placed, the others uniden- 

 tate, posterior extending to middle of second abdominal seg- 

 ment; tibiae denticulate below, the front pair very distinctly 

 the others rather indistinctly so. Length (excluding rostrum), 

 8-9 mm. 



//<26.— Queensland : Mackay (C. French). 



The stripes on the prothorax are close together, com- 

 mence at the apex and gradually narrow towards the base, 

 which they do not quite touch, the median line towards the 

 base is of the same colour as the stripes. The eyes are mar- 

 gined with ochreous pubescence above and flavous below; on 

 the prothorax and elytra the clothing is ochreous; on the 

 under surface and legs it varies from white, through ochreous, 

 to black. 



In general appearance close to renusta, but smaller, 

 femora dentate, antennae much thinner, with the first joint 



