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one of these has the tibiae almost black. The clothing is 

 but feebly variegated, and to the naked eye appears to be 

 of a dull-muddy-grey. 



TiMARETA XANTHOEEHCEiE, n. Sp. 



Dull-red, claws black. Rather densely clothed with 

 greyish-white or bluish-white scales, with feeble light-brown 

 markings ; under-surface with rather sparse subsetose cloth- 

 ing. With numerous erect whitish setae. 



Head with minute, normally-concealed punctures. Ros- 

 trum short, parallel-sided, inter-antennary space strongly 

 narrowed hindwards. Antennae thin; scape moderately 

 curved ; basal joint of funicle stouter and slightly longer than 

 second. Prothorax almost as long as wide, sides rather 

 strongly rounded ; with rather small punctures and obsolete 

 granules, both normally almost or quite concealed ; median 

 line very indistinct. Elytra subovate or subcordate ; with 

 series of rather large, partially-concealed punctures, in 

 feeble striae ; interstices gently convex, not alternately raised. 

 Front coxce not quite touching ; femora stout, especially the 

 front pair ; front tibiae with several stout setae or spines, btit 

 not denticxilate below. Length, 3i-4| mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Darling Ranges (A. M. Lea). 



The male differs from the female in being smaller, the 

 elytra narrower and with larger punctures, the two basal 

 segments of abdomen flat (instead of gently convex) in 

 middle, and the legs slightly longer. 



A comparatively small, narrow species not very close to 

 any other known to me. The setae are very conspicuous, 

 especially on the elytra. On the prothorax the light-brown 

 markings form three feeble longitudinal stripes, of which the 

 outer ones are sometimes not continuous to the apex. On 

 the elytra there is generally a patch of the light-brown scales 

 obliqely bounded close to the summit of the posterior de- 

 clivity, by pale scales, but often continued along the suture 

 and sometimes feebly dilated about the apex. On an occa- 

 sional specimen the elytra appear to have numerous small 

 whitish spots. Occasionally the clothing is of a uniform dull 

 grey. Numerous specimens were obtained from a species of 

 Xnnthoi-rhoea. 



SUBFAMILY LEPTOPSIDES. 



Catasarcus ovinus, Pasc. 



There are numerous specimens before me which I refer 

 to this species. They differ from ojrimus in being somewhat 

 narrower, and with the elytral punctures rather less con- 



