BY A. M. LEA. 505 



Head rather large, i'rom clypeus to base scarcely as long as the greatest 

 width; with crowded, small, asperate punctures, a few of larger size; median 

 line faintly defined but continuous. Eyes rather small and moderately pro- 

 minent. Prothoras slightly longer than wide, sides widest and strongly rounded 

 near apes; thence oblique to base; punctures minute and densely crowded. 

 Elytra elongate-elliptic; with dense and minute punctures. Intercoxal process of 

 abdomen wide and truncate. Hind femora strongly clavate, strongly and acutely 

 dentate. Length, 4 mm. 



Hal). — Westei-n Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). 



Differs from F. quadrimaculatus in the head being considerably larger, with 

 eyes slightly neai-er base ; elytra slightly bronzy and with denser and more sharply 

 defined punctures; although decidedly small, the punctures are so dense that from 

 some directions the surface appears microscopically granulate; it is, however, 

 somewhat shining, but the prothoras and head are opaque. The legs are paler 

 than the prothorax, and this is paler than the head, which is somewhat infuseated 

 in front. The elytral fasciae appear to be easUy abraded, and on the type the 

 supporting dern. is no paler than the adjacent parts. 



FOEJIICOMUS MELASOMUS, n.sp. 



Black, parts of appendages reddish. With rather sparse pale pubescence, 

 but forming two interrupted fasciae on elytra: one at the basal third, the other 

 at the apical third. 



Head briefly ovate, hind angles rather strongly rounded off; with dense and 

 small but, in some lights, sharply defined punctures; median line faint. Eyes 

 small, prominent and distant from base. Prothoras slightly longer than wide, 

 slightly narrower than head, widest and strongly roimded near apex, sides thence 

 oblique to base; punctures much as on head; median line faint but continuous. 

 Elytra elongate-elliptic; with minute punctures, becoming very faint posteriorly. 

 Intercoxal process of abdomen rather wide and truncate. Hind femora strongly 

 clavate, strongly and acutely dentate. Length, 3 — 3.5 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia: Lucindale (B. A. Feuerheerdt), Narracoorte (A. 

 M. Lea); Western Australia: Yilgarn (Blackburn's collection from E. Meyriek). 



Structurally resembling F. quadrimaculatus on a small scale, but darker, 

 more conves, eyes smaller, etc. The head and prothorax are somewhat shining, 

 despite the density of punctures, these, however, not beiug asperate. The an- 

 tennae are reddish, but with the apical half more or less deeply infuseated; the 

 cosae, basal half of femora, tarsi and tibiae (wholly or in part) are reddish; 

 in some lights the derm beneath the pubescent fasciae is seen to be obscurely 

 reddish on some specimens, but not on others. Four, of the five, specimens under 

 esamination have male genitalia esposed, and have the basal segment of abdomen 

 less conves, and front tarsi slightly wider than on the other specimen, these being 

 the only esternal indications of sex. 



FOEMICOMUS DENTIVARIUS, n.sp. 



Colours variable. Rather densely clothed with fine pubescence, varying in 

 colour with the derm; with numerous long, erect, dark hairs scattered about. 



Head of moderate size, subovate, hind angles rather strongly rounded off; 

 with dense and rather small but (escept where partially concealed by clothing) 

 sharply defined punctures. Eyes small, medio-lateral and very prominent. Pro- 

 thoras transverse, distinctly wider than head, all angles widely rounded off, near 



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