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Elleschodes rufulus, n. sp. 



Male. Dull reddish-brown. Densely clothed with straw- 

 colonred setae, with feeble darker spots; scutellum with dense 

 whitish clothing. Under surface and legs with fairly dense 

 whitish clothing. 



Rostrum, thin, slightly longer than prothorax and lightly 

 curved ; with a thin median carina, and with four very feeble 

 ones caused by rows of pimctures; sculpture almost concealed 

 on basal half ; antennae thin, inserted two-fifths from apex 

 of rostrum. Prothorax about once and one half as wide as 

 long, punctures normally concealed. Elytra elongate-cordate, 

 nowhere parallel-sided ; with series of not very large but 

 almost regular punctures; interstices not separately convex, 

 with small concealed punctures. Ahdomen with dense and 

 regular punctures. Femora stout, rather strongly and acutely 

 dentate. Length, 2 J mm. 



Hah. — Victoria: Wangaratta (A. M. Lea). 



On the prothorax of the type the darker spots amongst 

 the pubescence are very indistinct; but on the elytra they 

 are fairly distinct and about forty in number. 



A specimen obtained at the same time as the type is 

 probably the female, it differs in being larger, in having 

 the dark elytral clothing covering most of the surface, the 

 paler clothing covering the base only, except for a few in- 

 distinct spots posteriorly, the rostrum thinner and decidedly 

 longer, and the antennae inserted almost in exact middle of 

 sides of rostrum. 



Elleschodes sutukalis, n. sp. 



Of a rather pale reddish-brown. -Clothed with whitish 

 setae or pubescence, dense on sides and middle of prothorax 

 and on suture. 



Rostrum thin, curved; in male slightly longer than pro- 

 thorax and longer in female than in male; with a fine median 

 carina and with four very feeble ones caused by rows of 

 punctures; sculpture partially concealed on basal third in 

 male, at base only in female. Antennae thin, inserted about 

 two-fifths from apex of rostrum. Frothorax about once and 

 one third as wide as long; with dense, round, more or less 

 concealed punctures. Elytra rather elongate-cordate, nowhere 

 parallel-sided; with series of not very large punctures, but 

 becoming larger towards base and sides; interstices not sepa- 

 rately convex, with small and usually concealed punctures. 

 Abdomen with dense partially concealed punctures. Femora 

 moderately stout, very feebly dentate. Length, lJ-2 mm. 



Tlab.—l^ew South Wales: Galston (A. M. Lea). 



