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latter frequently conjoined to form small transverse ridges, 

 especially in the middle. Elytra large; subhumeral tubercle 

 small but subconical ; with rows of large punctures, becom- 

 ing smaller posteriorly ; interstices in some parts narrower 

 than punctures, with small and more or less obsolete gran- 

 ules. Length, 12-14 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Esperance Bay (W. W. Frog- 

 gatt and C. French). 



On one specimen the club is very little darker than the 

 rest of the antennae, but on the others it is black ; the tarsi 

 and tips of the tibise are sometimes infuscated. On one 

 specimen the grooves on the head are densely filled with flav- 

 ous scales, the grooves on the rostrum having as dense but 

 paler scales. On its elytra all the punctures are filled with 

 flavous scales, and flavous and white scales are rather dense 

 on parts of the under-surface. On other specimens, how- 

 ever, the clothing is much sparser. 



In appearance somewhat close to the two preceding spe- 

 cies and to mactdatus, but median carinse on head close to- 

 gether and parallel, the space between them being only about 

 ■one-fifth of the total space between the two outer ones. They 

 are even more closely together than in ovinus, from which 

 species it also differs in being larger and narrower, elytral 

 punctures larger, and prothorax much rougher. The general 

 appearance is much like Ilopei, but that species also has the 

 median carinae more distant. 



Two specimens from the Swan River differ in being 

 smaller (11-12 mm.), with the prothoracic granules less nume- 

 rous, and with a less noticeable tendency to become conjoined 

 across the middle. 



Leptops fasciatus, n. sp. 



Black ; parts of antennae and of legs obscurely diluted 

 with red. Very densely clothed with soft round scales, vary- 

 ing from white to dark-brown, but mostly of a pale-brown 

 on the upper surface, and whitish on the lower. Upper sur- 

 face wiith moderately dense setae, longer on the elytra than 

 the prothorax ; denser on the under surface and still denser 

 -on the legs. 



Head with dense, concealed punctures. Rostrum com- 

 paratively long and thin ; with a fine but distinct median 

 -carina, on each side of which is a rather shallow groove; sub- 

 lateral sulci lightly curved, closed at both ends ; scrobes shal- 

 low on posterior third. Antennae rather thin ; scape rather 

 suddenly thickened at apex. Prothorax along middle as long 

 a,s wide, but longer at sides, sides strongly rounded ; with 

 small, regular, flattened tubercles or large granules, and 



