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feebly mottled ; the sides, especially head and base of ros- 
trum, usually with paler scales than on disc. With nume- 
rous rather stout setze, almost invisible from in front, but 
very distinct from the sides or behind. Under surface and 
legs with greyish scales and setze. 
Жуев elliptic-oval, finely faceted. Rostrum longer and 
narrower than head, apical plate distinctly triangularly 
notched in front, feebly produced hindward in a carina. 
Scape long, almost touching prothorax, thickened towards 
but not clavate at apex; first joint of funicle as long as the 
two following combined, none of them transverse: club ellip- 
tic-ovate. — Prothorar transverse, sides strongly rounded, 
base wider than apex; ocular lobes distinct; disc in front 
finely punctate, punctures concealed, towards base feebly ir- 
regularly corrugated. Scutellum very minute. Elytra sub- 
cordate, at base scarcely wider than prothorax, increasing in 
width to about the middle; striate-punctate, punctures large, 
approximate, moderately distinct through clothing, very dis- 
tinct at the sides; interstices wide, feebly convex. Anterior 
tibi stouter than usual, strongly curved towards apex and 
acutely dentate beneath; claws notched at apex. Length, 
51; width, 2}; variation in length, 5-6 mm. 
Hab.—Swan River. 
Specimens have been táken in abundance by means of the 
sweep net. Оп an occasional specimen the scales appear to 
have a slight golden lustre, but it is extremely faint; several 
have a very feeble spot of pale scales on each side of middle 
of base. The facets of the eyes, though small, are larger 
than in either of the preceding species. 
POLYPHRADES EXTENUATUS, n. Sp. 
Black, opaque; antennæ scarcely paler. Densely and al- 
most uniformly clothed with grey scales and sete having a 
rather loose appearance; on the under paler than on the 
upper surface and with a silvery lustre. 
Shape and sculpture much as in the preceding species, but 
the prothorax strongly and rugosely punctate except about 
the apical sixth, and the elytral punctures much stronger, 
the tibiæ are not so wide at the apex and the claws are more 
distinetly separated. Length, 5; width, 2 mm. 
Hab.—Swan River. 
This species is very close to the preceding, but the different 
colour of the scales and very different punctures of the pro- 
thorax (obscured, however, by the clothing), appear to ren- 
der it distinct. 
POLYPHRADES SETOSUS, n. SP. 
Black, opaque. Densely and uniformly clothed with pale 
subochreous scales, and with very dense and regular stout 
