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uate; with small scattered punctures. Scutellum slightly 
longer than wide. уға considerably wider than pro- 
thorax, shoulders Strongly rounded, sides parallel to near 
apex, apex feebly notched ; striate-punctate, punctures mode- 
rately large and subquadrate; interstices regular and gently 
convex, much wider than punctures. Legs long; femora 
very feebly dentate; tibiæ fringed beneath with black setose 
hair, apex crowned with stiff black setæ. Length, 51 (rost. 
incl); head and rostrum, 2$; width, 2 (vix.) mm. 
Hab.—N.W. Australia (Macleay Museum), King's Sound 
(W. W. Froggatt). 
The femoral teeth are very small, and are invisible from 
most directions. Оп the elytra the spots have a decided ten- 
dency to become united at the sides; on both prothorax and 
elytra the interspaces between the spots of green scales are 
clothed with blackish scales, which, though individually 
rather large, are traceable with some difficulty ; each of the 
elytral interstices has a row of pale semi-decumbent sete, 
which, on some specimens, are very distinct, but scarcely 
traceable on others. 
SUB-FAMILY LEPTOPSIDES. 
POLYPHRADES VITIS, n. sp. 
Black, opaque; antenne, tibie, and tarsi obscure reddish. 
Densely clothed with brown scales, speckled here and there 
with grey ones or very stout sete, flanks of prothorax and 
elytra with patches of distinct white scales, a small patch on 
each side of middle more distinct on prothorax than on 
elytra. Under surface and legs with greyish-white scales, 
the femora annulate near apex; tibie with dense and long 
pale set. | 
Eyes elliptic-ovate, finely faceted. Rostrum almost twice 
the length of and decidedly narrower than head, apical plate 
triangular, produced behind in a carina, becoming very ob- 
tuse towards the base. Scape long, apex clavate, touching 
prothorax, almost the length of funicle; first joint of funicle 
the length of second and third combined; third to seventh 
gradually decreasing in length; third and fourth globular; 
fifth to seventh transverse; club elliptic, the length of four 
preceding joints. Prothorax slightly transverse, sides rather 
strongly rounded, apex slightly narrower than base; ocular 
lobes finely ciliate; disc rugosely punctate, but punctures en- 
tirely concealed. Scutellum indistinct. ^ Elytra cordate, 
scarcely twice the length of prothorax, sides near base 
strongly rounded, base widely and shallowly emarginate, not 
ridged ; striate-punctate, punctures large, but partially con- 
cealed ; interstices wide and feebly convex. Tibie very 
