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LEPTOPS ELEGANS. 
Male. Head and rostrum with black sete and white scales 
intermingled, upper surface of scape with dense blackish 
sete; club (except base) brown; prothorax with black scales 
and sete, median line marked by white, pink-tinted scales; 
elytra with sooty-black scales, a very distinct and dense sutu- 
ral line of snowy scales, at the base pink-tinted ; sides from 
base to apex narrowly margined with snowy scales, a short 
stripe behind each shoulder tinted with pink. Under surface 
and legs with snowy scales; flanks of sterna, a spot on each 
of the anterior coxæ and a bloteh on each side of abdomen 
sooty. 
Head densely punctate, punctures partially concealed. Ros- 
trum less robust than usual; scarcely grooved in middle, but 
with a thin, shining carina ; a short sulcus on each side ; scrobes 
short, oblique, shallow, terminated considerably before eyes. 
Antenne moderately long; scape as long as funicle, straight, 
very feebly thickened towards apex; second joint of funicle 
slightly longer than first; fourth to sixth transverse. Pro- 
thorax cylindrical, apparently transverse, but: near apex 
slightly wider than long (male 3 x 31); shallowly excavated 
along median line; with numerous punctate granules or obtuse 
tubercles. Аула considerably wider than prothorax ; shoul- 
ders oblique, each with a sharp, conical tubercle; sides sub- 
parallel to near apex; strongly punctate; third, fifth, and 
seventh interstices with rather sharp, conical tubercles, small 
except at summit of posterior declivity on third and fifth. 
Legs rather long and slender. Length, 12; rostrum, 3i; 
width, 5 (vix.) mm. 
Female. Differs in having the dark prothoracic and elytral 
scales of a sooty brown, the white scales slightly tinged with 
yellow, and nowhere tinted with pink, almost the entire 
sides of the elytra with whitish scales, and a few whitish ones 
about some of the tubercles; the under surface is nowhere 
distinctly blotched with dark scales. The elytra are consider- 
ably wider, widen posteriorly, and the tubercles are less 
acute. Length, 16; width, 73 mm. * 
Hab.—N.Q.: Endeavour River (С. Masters), Somerset (C. 
French). 
A beautiful species approaching the hwmeralis group, but I 
do not know a species with which it can be satisfactorily com- 
pared. Mr. Pascoe* refers Hipporhinus clavus, Fahrs., to 
Leptops. I have not seen M. Olivier's figure of that species, 
but it is described by Fabricius as “Albicans, thorace canali- 
culato ; coleopteris spinosis; lineolis tribus baseos rubris." It 
is possible, though it seems hardly possible, that c/avus is the 
above described species; elegans could scarcely be called 
