396 RECORns of the S.A. Museum 



punctures; but the seriate ones on tlie elytra are above tlie average size. Tlie eyes 

 of the male are separated less than the length of the liasal joint of the antennae, 

 on the female they are separated the length of the three basal joints. 



DITROPIDUS CRIBRICEPS sp. nov. 



9 C(ip])crv-bronze ; parts of antennae, of ]:>al]5i. and of legs reddish. Under- 

 sm-face and legs moderately clothed with white [lubescence. head almost glabrous. 



Head moderatelv convex, median line absent : punctures dense, sharply 

 defined, and not very small. Eyes widely separated. Protlwrax at apex about 

 as wide as the median length, sides strongly rounded ; with numerous small 

 ]ninctures in middle, becoming larger and crowded on sides, the hind angles 

 substrigose. Elytra short, sides slightly rounded : with rows of rather large punc- 

 tures, Ijeconiing smaller posteriorlv, and on the sides set in deep striae; interstices 

 almost impunctate. Ahdonicu with a large, round, deep, apical fovea. Length. 

 2 8-3 mm. 



Hah. Queensland: P.luflf (A. M. Lea). Type, L to86i. 



A briefly oblong-elliptic species, somewhat like D. ochropus. but head with- 

 out a median line, and punctures decidedly coarser ; in build it is much like the 

 preceding species, but is larger, head and prothorax with more sharply defined 

 punctures, and eyes of female nmre distant; they are also much more distant 

 than on the presumed female of D. macrof^s: it is larger than the description of 

 D. trahratKS and is not sub-canaliculate lietween the eyes. The labrum is almost 

 black ; the bnsal half of the antennae on the type is pale, but on a second specimen 

 the upper portion of the two basal ioints is infuscated, the club is deep black on 

 both ; the knees, tarsi, and hind femora are more or less deeply infuscated. The 

 basal angles of the prothorax slightly embrace the shoulders, and are almost 

 spiniforni. 



DITROPIDUS VIRIDITINCTUS sp. nov. 



c? Black with a slight greenish gloss, labrum. basal half of antennae, palpi 

 and legs (knee.s and tarsi infuscated). of a more or less dingy flavous. Head, 

 under-surface, and legs with sparse, white pubescence. 



Head with rather small and not yery dense punctures, median line shallow. 

 Kves widely separated. Protlwrax at apex about as wide as the median length, 

 somewhat .gibbous in front, sides strongly rounded; punctures yery minute. 

 Elytra oblong; with rows of rather large punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly, 

 and set in deep striae on the sides. [.e(/s moderately stout. Length. 2 -5-2 75 mm. 



Hah. .South Australia; Mount Loftv (J. C. O. Tepper). Type. T. 10005. 



In general appearance much like D. Diacrof^.'; and D. puuctil^ciniis on a large 



