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apical segment in one sex with a shallow median depression, 

 in the other with a small, round, subapical fovea. Legs 

 long and thin. Length, 11J-12J mm. 



Hub. — South Australia (Macleay and South Australian 

 Museums). 



In general appearance very close to Lindensis; but the 

 prothoracic crests practically without granules, a less distance 

 across their apices (the space across the apices in Lindensis 

 is greater than in any other species known to me), and de- 

 cidedly converging towards their bases, so that the space they 

 enclose is more pear-shaped ; the sides are also less serrated. 

 The elytra not wide across the shoulders distinguishes from the 

 description of lugubris, and the very distinct tubercles from the 

 description of obsoletus. One specimen was sent as macil- 

 entus, but it certainly is not that species, which is described 

 as having seven tubercles inwardly and four outwardly, and 

 with the apex strongly emarginate. 



The tubercles are not always as black as the rest of the 

 elytra, but they are not distinctly reddish in any of the 

 specimens under examination. They are rather large and 

 increase in size hindwards, the inner ones being rather larger 

 but more obtuse than the outer ones. On two specimens 

 there are only three on the left outer row. The second row 

 of punctures is not, or scarcely, deflected by the tubercles, but 

 is continued on them, usually but one puncture being on the 

 inner side of a tubercle, but sometimes two or three. 



SUBFAMILY HYPERIDES. 



EURYCHIRUS ALLENI, 11. Sp. 



Dark-reddish-brown, antennae and legs (wholly or in 

 part) paler. Densely clothed with somewhat small, rounded 

 scales ; and with thin scattered setae. 



Head with normally-concealed punctures. Rostrum stout, 

 the length of three basal joints of tarsi ; with fairly dense 

 punctures ; with a feeble impunctate median carina. Two 

 basal joints of funicle moderately long. Prothorax slightly 

 wider than long, base not much wider than apex: with small, 

 dense, normally-concealed punctures. Elytra (across shoul- 

 ders) twice the width of prothorax, not much wider than long, 

 shoulders projecting laterally ; a strong conical tubercle on 

 each side of middle, preapical callosities small but distinct ; 

 with rows of large but partially-concealed punctures, the 

 rows deflected about tubercles. Legs moderately long: hind 

 femora just passing elytra; tibiae narrowly grooved through- 

 out their lower surface. Length, 7-8J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (E. Allen). 



