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ones in each (if the hind angles, and for a row in each lateral g'litter. PAytra 

 scarcely longer than the hasal width : with rows of large punctures, on the sides 

 set in deep striae: interstices scarcely visihlv iiunctate. Length, 2 '5 mm. 



Hah. Northern Territory: Darwin ( ( i. F. Hill). Type. L 10909. 



At first glance f|uite an ordinary looking, hriefly-ovate species, but readily 

 distinguished by the eyes being very close together (less than half the length of 

 the basal joint of antennae separating them), and the pvgidiuni produced for- 

 wards so as almost to touch the ba^al segment of the abdomen (these characters 

 no doubt are confined to the males ) : the clv|)eus is also peculiar, it is impunctate, 

 narrow at the base and slo])ing- downwards, with a munded surface to the dilated 

 apex: the only distinct punctures on the pronotum are those in the basal angles; 

 the scutellar lobe is unusualh- acute : the intercoxal process of the prosternum is 

 fully twice as wide a>-- its median (ength. and the middle of its front edge is dis- 

 tinctly upturned fsubdentate). The upper-surface from most directions has the 

 coppery-bronze appearance of so many species of the genus, but from others the 

 elytra, more notably on one specimen than on the other before me, appear 

 decidedly purple. The eyes are somewhat as in D. doriac. but that is a larger and 

 differently coloured species with yery different abdomen : D. palmcrstoni. from 

 the same locality-, is nuich the same in colour. Inn differs in the punctures, eyes, 

 abdomen, etc. 



DITROPIDUS INDISTINCTUS sp. nov. 



S Bronzy, under-surface and legs black, basal half of antennae reddish, 

 the club infuscated or blackish. Under-surface and legs with sparse pubescence. 



Head with dense punctures only at base. Eyes large and close together. 

 Prothorax more than twice as wide as the median length, sides strongly rounded; 

 punctures yery minute. Elytra briefly suboblong; with rows of not yery large 

 punctures, becoming larger and set in deep striae on the sides ; interstices with 

 numerous yery minute punctures. Fnint lajs slightly longer than hind ones. 

 Length (6 ? ). 2-25-275 mm. 



9 Differs in being larger and m<ire robust, prothorax shorter ("about 

 thrice as wide as long), elytra longer, less narrowed posteriorly, and with smaller 

 punctures, front legs no longer than hind ones and abdomen foveate. 



Hah. South .Australia: Leigh Creek ( Rlackhunrs collection. No. 26.^8). 

 Ouorn (A. H. FJston) Type, L 10849. 



.\ yery ordinary looking species. The prothorax, except on close examina- 

 tion, ap|)ears to be impunctate; the interstitial punctures of the elytra cause the 

 surface to appear yery feebly shagreened. The fiye females taken by Mr. Black- 



