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sete. Scales of under surface, legs and antenne slightly 
tinged with brown. 
Eyes round and finely faceted. Rostrum short, stout, no 
longer and scarcely narrower than head; scrobes large and 
deep; apical plate strongly transverse, notched in front, а 
depression from its apex to head. Scape rather long and 
stout, curved, scarcely extending to prothorax, considerably 
shorter than funicle ; funicle with cylindrical joints, the first 
shorter than the second and third combined, fifth to seventh 
transverse; club acutely pointed. ^ Prothoraw transverse, 
sides strongly rounded, base and apex subequal; dise densely 
and rugosely punctate or granulate, before the scales are re- 
moved appearing feebly transversely corrugate ; ocular lobes 
not traceable. Scutellum very minute. | Elytra oblong- 
ovate, no wider than but about twice the length of prothorax ; 
striate-punctate, punctures large, subquadrate, approximate, 
distinct through clothing, interstices wide and moderately 
convex. Anterior tibiæ rather stout, distinctly curved at 
apex, with a few small teeth beneath; claws separated for 
fully half their length and slightly unequal. Length, 7; 
width, 2% mm. 
Hab.—N.W. Australia (Macleay Museum). 
A very distinct species, in shape resembling nanus. The 
sete are more numerous and stouter than in any other species 
with which I am acquainted. The eyes are rather peculiar. 
On one specimen the deciduous piece of the left mandible 18 
present; it is long (slightly longer than the eye), strongly 
curved, rounded outwardly and blade-like internally, and is 
of a shining reddish-brown. 
POLYPHRADES GRANULATUS, n. Sp. 
Black, opaque. Densely clothed with grey scales and with 
paler and dense sete. Under surface and legs with greyish 
scales and sete. 
Head obtusely but distinctly granulate. Eyes rather large, 
ovate, moderately prominent, finely faceted. Rostrum stout, 
slightly longer than head, apical plate triangular, slightly 
raised, continued to between eyes by a narrow acute costa. 
Scape stout, not clavate, scarcely passing eyes; first joint of 
funicle as long as two follow'ug combined, fifth to seventh 
feebly transverse; club elliptic. Prothorax transverse, sides 
strongly rounded, base wider than apex ; ocular lobes dis- 
tinct; disc transversely irregularly wrinkled, the elevations 
punctate. Scutellum minute. Elytra oblong-ovate, wider 
than prothorax at base, feebly increasing in width to about 
the middle; striate-punctate, punctures large, quadrate, ap- 
proximate, very distinct through clotning; interstices wide, 
feebly convex. Anterior tibie curved at apex, with a few 
