or AUSTRALIAN PHYTOPKAGOUS BEETLES. 471 



finely and remotely punctured. Scutellum transverse its apex 

 broadly and obtusely rounded. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 oblong, parallel; above convex, rather closely punctured, inter- 

 spaces transversely rugulose. 



Teeillus Dubotjlati. Subelongatus, subcylindricus, obscure 

 seneus, dense albido-squamosus ; labro, antennis pedibusque rufo- 

 piceis ; thorace subcylindrico, sat remote, mediocriter punctate ; 

 elytris tenuiter punctatis, interspatiis ante medium transversim 

 rugulosis. Long. 3 lin. 



Sah. Western Australia. 



Body densely clothed with adpressed scales. Head exserted, 

 broad, distinctly but not strongly punctured, surface closely 

 covered with long, white, adpressed scales ; clypeus broader than 

 long, sides converging towards the apex, the apical border obsolete; 

 eyes large, remote, prominent, subrotundate, their inner border 

 slightly sinuate ; antennge not half the length of the body, 

 slender ; jaws black. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long ; sides 

 nearly parallel behind the middle, slightly converging in front ; 

 above subcylindrical, subremotely punctured, densely clothed 

 with adpressed scales, a longitudinal space down the centre of the 

 disk, and another, less defined, on either side, nearly glabrous. 

 Scutellum much broader than long, its sides diverging from the 

 base towards the apex, the latter broadly and obtusely rounded. 

 Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, their sides parallel, their 

 apices conjointly, subacutely rounded ; above subcylindrical, 

 irregularly punctured ; interspaces on the anterior disk trans- 

 versely rugulose ; surface closely covered with white and pale 

 fuscous scales, arranged in broad, ill-defined vittse, leaving on each 

 elytron three or four nearly glabrous longitudinal spaces. 



Teeilltjs yittatfs. Elongatus, convexus, cupreus, nitidus, 

 pube subdepressa grisea vestitus ; antennis, tibiis tarsisque piceis ; 

 thorace rugoso-punctato, utrinque excavate, disci medio macula 

 trifida, et ante medium serie transversa punctorum nitidorum in- 

 structo ; elytris rude punctatis, utrinque infra basin fovea magna 

 excavatis, interspatiis transversim elevato-strigosis, vittis non- 

 nullis interruptis, prope apicem magis elevatis, instructis. Long. 

 2i lin. 



Hah. Queensland, Eockhampton. 



Head rugose-punctate, clothed with long, subdepressed, silky 

 hairs ; clypeus wedge-shaped, less closely punctured than the 



