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are fairly numerous but irregular granules, but on the disc 

 the feeble transverse folds are seldom broken up into gran- 

 ules. On the elytra the granules are frequently so arranged 

 as to form feeble rings around the punctures ; between punc- 

 ture and puncture there is often a feeble ridge (depressed 

 in its middle), apparently formed by conjoined granules. 



In appearance mixch like rufi'pes, but the elytral punc- 

 tures surrounded with isolated granules, and the carinjE on 

 the head somewhat different. 



Catasarcus mollis, n. sp. 



Black, appendages red ; basal half of antennae infuscate, 

 claws and club black. 



Head with small, dense punctures, and with a few scat- 

 tered ones of slightly larger size ; with four strong and very 

 decidedly curved carinse. Median carina of rostrum compara- 

 tively narrow, but very distinct to where it extends into the 

 apical triangle, lateral carinae with coarse and somewhat irre- 

 gular punctiires. First joint of funicle about once and one- 

 half the length of second. Prothorax strongly transverse; 

 with small, dense, and more or less angular granules ; with 

 dense, minute punctures, and with some larger ones, but 

 still small, scattered about. Elytra large ; subhumeral 

 tubercle stout and slightly curved ; with rows of large and 

 rather deep punctures, becoming small posteriorly ; inter- 

 stices somewhat wrinkled, with sparse, small punctures, and 

 with still smaller but somewhat denser ones. Length, 144- 

 16 m^m. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Mount Barker and Albany 

 <R. Helms). 



On the two specimens before me the clothing is much 

 as on the preceding species, except that it has a slight golden 

 tinge; this, however, is probably not a constant distinction. 

 One of the specimens has the knees very slightly infuscated. 

 The carinse on the head are at about equal distances apart 

 where they terminate in front, but about their middle the 

 space between the two median ones is fully half the total 

 space between the two outer ones. The elytral interstices on 

 the basal half appear to be sinuous and narrower than the 

 punctures, but posteriorly they are wider than the punctures 

 and less sinuous. From certain directions they appear to be 

 covered with very feeble granules. 



The carinse on the head are as described in pollinosns, 

 l)ut the elytral punctures are larger, than usual, instead of 

 ■small and remote. In his description of pollinosns Pascoe 

 assumed that "the peculiar waxy appearance is not an exu- 

 dation to be rubbed off, but is a part of the tegument itself." 



