288 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Upper-surface sparsely clothed with deprtssed golden pubescence; under-surface 

 and legs with very short pubescence. 



Head rather large, with dense, sharply-defined punctures, becoming of 

 moderate size and rather crowded in front ; clypeal suture distinct only on sides. 

 Antennae moderately long, joints after the sixth increasing in width and forming 

 a loose club; eleventh joint Ijrietly ovate. Protliora.r strongly convex, about 

 thrice as wide as long, sides very narrowly margined and decreasing in width 

 from base to apex ; punctures fairl}' numerous Ijut very small, sharply-defined 

 only in front angles. Sfiitclliiiii apparently alisent. F.Iyfra short, outlines 

 continuous with those of i)rothorax ; punctures numerous Init small and 

 inconspicuous; eiiii)leurae wide adjacent to metasternum, then narrowed to 

 middle of sides of al)domen. Undcr-siirfacc with rather small ])Unctures, denser 

 and smaller on abdomen than on sterna. Length, 2 '25 mm. 



//(;/). X'ictoria: Lome. ( )ctober, 1918 ( F. E. \\'ilson). Type (unique). 

 L 1070,^. 



With the general outlines of PcdHoplwnis hrvopluu/iis and Prdilopltonis 

 sinipHcicuniis. but up]jer-surface with distinct clothing; the clothing, however, is 

 sparse and depressed, and from parts of the elytra altogether absent. The apical 

 joint of the palpi 's large, but flat and truncated. 



Table of the .Australian species of Pcdiloplwrus. 

 A. Elytra tuberculate 



a. Prolhorax with numerous short ridges ... ... dives 



aa. Prothorax without ridges 



b. More than thirty tubercles on each elytron can'ssiiiiiis 

 bb. Less than thirty 



c. Sutural row of tubercles five in num- 

 ber (rarely six) ... ... gciiiiuatKs 



cc. Sulural row of tubercles more than 



six in number ... ... nudipcniiis 



AA. Elytra nontuberculate 



B. Upper surface entirely glabrous 



d. Prothorax without punctures on most of 



surface ... ... ... ... 'ciridinitens 



dd. Prothorax punclured throughout 



e. Elytra with suture and base con- 

 spicuously paler than adjacent 

 parts ... ... ... iiiaciilatipcs 



ee. Elytra with suture and base not 

 paler 



