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Mandalotus simulatoe, Lea. 



A specimen from the Blue Mountains differs from the 

 types in being larger (6 mm.), with the front tibise inflated 

 towards the base, and with a conspicuous row of granules 

 when viewed from some directions (in the types the tibiae are 

 less inflated and the granules are miich less conspicuous) ; 

 the mesosternal process, in addition to its curvature, appears 

 also to be slightly concave on its apical two-thirds. 



Mandalotus campylocnemis, Lea. 

 d . In the male of this species the basal segment of the 

 abdomen should not have been described as transversely de- 

 pressed. Although the depression is wider at the base than 

 it is long down the middle, it is certainly a longitudinal one, 

 and rearwards just perceptibly encroaches on the second seg- 

 ment. In front it is joined on to a large depression on the 

 meta- and m_eso-sternum, that is bounded on each side by 

 the coxae. The middle coxse in consequence are strongly ele- 

 vated above the middle of the mesosternum. Their inner 

 walls are obliquely flattened, and each has a short conical 

 projection in line with its trochanter : they are very widely 

 separated (almost as widely as the hind pair), and the suture 

 between them is deeply impressed. The front coxae are also 

 widely separated, but the space between them is hardly more 

 than half that between the middle pair : the space between 

 them is also somewhat irregular. The front tibis have a 

 strong flange-like extension near the apex, so that the apex 

 itself appears somewhat V-shaped. 



Mandalotus incisus, n. sp. 



J . Black ; antennas dull-red, most of scape darker, 

 tarsi reddish-castaneous. Densely clothed with muddy-brown 

 or sooty scales, feebly variegated on the under surface and 

 legs. With stout, dark recurved setae. 



Rostrum with a narrow carina, visible throughout. 

 Scape moderately stout, regularly increasing in thickness to 

 apex. Frothorax (from above) almost circular in outline ; 

 with large, round, somewhat flattened granules, traceable 

 through, but completely covered by, clothing. Elytra con- 

 jointly arcuate at base, with a comparatively strong sub- 

 humeral tubercle, disc somewhat uneven ; feebly tuberculate 

 about summit of ^oosterior declivity ; with large, round, nor- 

 mally almost concealed punctures. Mesosternum with a 

 rather short intercoxal process, which is distinctly notched 

 at its apex. Abdomen strongly depressed near base. Front 

 coxce rather widely separated. Length, 4i-5i mm. 



