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any or with very little pubescence ; head with a white pubescence, 

 principally about the eyes, and with a few long white hairs ; prothorax 

 oblong, nearly cylindrical, rugose, with widely scattered hairs, the 

 disk with two slight tubercles ; scntellum scutiform ; elytra narrowly 

 subtrigonate, with a few large, mostly conical, granules at the base, 

 the apex truncate, the disk more coarsely punctured at the base, 

 where also is a sparse greyish pile, a densely pubescent snowy patch 

 from the shoulder, gradually lessening towards the apex ; body beneath 

 and legs with a sparse whitish pile ; fore tibiae curved, middle and 

 })osterior rather shorter than their tarsi ; antennae with a thin whitish 

 pubescence, and clothed with long hairs beneath. Length 6 lines. 



Also a very distinct species, which may stand after S. variolo- 

 siis, Pasc. 



Stmphtletes simius. 



S. ferrugineus, nitidus, fere denudatus ; elytris subtrigonatis, basi spinu- 

 liferis, apice truncatis, ad latera antice plaga pubescenti-fulva. 



Hab. Western Australia (Champion Bay) {Mr. Duboulay). 



Ferruginous, shining ; head rather strongly punctured in front, the me- 

 dian line not reaching to the mouth ; prothorax nearly subquadrate, 

 irregularly punctured, with two tubercles on the disk ; scutellum sub- 

 scutiform, rounded posteriorly ; elytra subtrigonate, rather closely 

 punctured, with a few scattered concolorous granules, one or two spi- 

 niform, at the base, the apex truncate, an oblong orange patch at the 

 side near the shoulder ; body beneath with a long whitish pubescence ; 

 the breast orange at the sides ; legs with a few scant whitish hairs, 

 more numerous at the tips of the tibiae ; antennae nearly naked, a few 

 whitish hairs fringing the lower edge. Length 7 lines. 



Near 8. egenus, but with truncate elytra like S. derasi(,s, with- 

 out, however, the snowy stripe on the side. 



Stmphtletes Bathurstii. 



S. ferrugineus, pube tenuissima grisea tectus ; prothorace oblongo, sub- 

 cylindrico ; elytris subtrigonatis, modice punctatis, basi leviter granu- 

 liferis, apice truncatis, margine exteriore dense niveo pubescente. 



Hab. South Australia (Gawler) {Mr. Bathurst). 



Ferruginous, with a thin scaly greyish pubescence, and minute patches 

 of fulvous ; head with a close whitish pubescence in front, and three 

 fulvous stripes on the vertex ; prothorax oblong, nearly cylindrical, 

 the disk with two small central tubercles ; scutellum rather transverse 

 depressed in the middle ; elytra subtrigonate, rather thinly punctured, 

 a few concolorous granules principally at the base, the apex truncate, 

 a white densely pubescent band along the side externally ; body be- 

 neath with a long greyish (on the abdomen yellowish) pile ; legs and 

 antennae with a greyish pile ; the latter fimbriated beneath. Length 

 8 lines. 



