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tures on disc, becoming rather dense and fairly large on sides. 

 Elytra of the same shape and with punctures and striae as 

 in lateralis. U iider .surface and legs also as in lateralis. 

 Length, 2 mm. 



Tlah. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum). 



Readily distinguished from all previously described Aus- 

 tralian sjaecies by the two flavous spots on the elytra. There 

 are three specimens before me, all males. 



SUBFAMILY MAGDALINIDES. 



MaGDALIS MAMILLATUS, n. sp. 



Brownish-red ; head, base, and tip of rostrum, scutellum 

 and under surface black or blackish. Densely clothed with 

 whitish pubescence, but absent from two spots on each elytron 

 and the greater portion of rostrum. 



Hea'l with dense but more or less concealed punctures. 

 Rostrum about two-thirds the length of prothorax, rather 

 wide, moderately curved: punctures at base as on head, else- 

 where smaller and sparser but clearly defined. Antennas in- 

 serted two-fifths from apex of rostrum ; scape the length of 

 five basal joints of funicle, and slightly longer than club. 

 Prothorar moderately transverse, apex slightly incurved to 

 middle ; densely punctate : with a feeble median subcarinated 

 line. Elytra very little wider than prothorax : with narrow, 

 obtusely punctate striae, interstices granulate. Femora 

 acutely dentate ; third tarsal joint wide. Length (excluding 

 rostrum), 4^-5^1^ mm. 



Tied). — Tasmania: Stonor, Prankford (A. M. Lea): Vic- 

 toria (C. French). 



There are three specimens before me, all apparently 

 females. On one of them the pubescence is decidedly whitish, 

 on a second it is stained with yellow, whilst on the third it 

 is almost golden (this specimen also has the club black). On 

 each elytron it is absent from a spot extending from the 

 second to the fourth interstice just be5'^ond the middle, and 

 to a less degree from the preapical callus. On the basal two- 

 thirds of the prothorax it is so directed as to appear to form 

 two breast-like swellings, with all the hairs directed to the 

 centre of each swelling : but this appearance seems to be 

 readily altered by abrasion. The prothorax would perhaps 

 be better described as densely granulate instead of punctate. 

 The elytral intei'stices are covered with small obtuse granules, 

 placed more or less transversely. 



Magdalis inermis, n. sp. 

 (S . Black: scape, funicle, and tarsi red. Under sur- 

 face and base of rostrum with spar§e, whitish pubescence. 



