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laterales sat multo angustiori) ; fronte fortiter sat rugu- 

 lose punctulata; hac clypeoque ut plana minus disparia 

 visis ; antennis 9-articulatis, articulo 3° quam 4 US paullo 

 longiori ; prothorace quam longiori ut 3 ad 2 (vix) latiori, 

 latitudine majori vix pone medium sita, antice sat for- 

 titer angustato, supra subtilius sat crebre punctulato 

 (puncturis circiter 20 in segmenti longitudine) , lateribus 

 (superne visis) sat fortiter rotundatis, sulco laterali 

 aequali, angulis anticis sat rectis parum productis posticis 

 (superne visis) sat rotundatis, basi vix bisinuata, mar- 

 gine basali subtili sequali ; elytris crebre subtiliter nee 

 aspere punctulatis (trans elytron puncturis circiter 32) ; 

 pygidio sparsius minus subtiliter punctulato ; coxis pos- 

 ticis quam metasternum sat multo brevioribus, quam seg- 

 mentum ventrale 2 um paullo longioribus ; tarsorum posti- 

 corum articulo basali quam 2 US vix breviori, quam 3 US 

 sat longiori ; unguiculis posticis appendiculatis sub- 

 bifidis, parte basali quam apicalis multo longiori. Long., 

 3 1.; lat., 1J 1. 



This species is somewhat close to several others, notes on 

 which will be found under the heading of the next species 

 (H mildurensis) ; it can be identified with confidence I think 

 by the characters indicated in the tabulation. Its sub- 

 bifid claws and other characters cause it to resemble H . sub- 

 fuscus, Macl. (Group VII.), from which it is easily dis- 

 tinguished, however, by its intermediate claws normally ap- 

 pendiculate, its notably smaller size, the smaller size of its 

 elytral punctures (which have no tendency to be asperate) , 

 etc. The trilobed outline of its head is fairly well defined 

 but not quite divided,, the middle lobe a little more than half 

 of a lateral lobe in size. 



North Queensland (Mr. Perkins). 

 II. mildurensis, sp nov: Minus elongatus, postice parum 

 dilatatus ; sat nitidus ; obscure ferrugineus, antennarum 

 flabello testaceo, elytris piceo-umbratis : supra pilis 

 adpressis minus brevibus vestitus ; clypeo crebre subtilius 

 ruguloso, antice leviter emarginato ; labro clypei planum 

 leviter superanti; capite antice (a tergo oblique viso) 

 tripliciter convexo (parte mediana quam laterales sat 

 angustiori) fronte sat fortiter minus rugulose punctulata ; 

 hac clypeoque ut plana minus disparia visis ; antennis 

 9-articulatis, articulo 3° quam 4 US manifeste longiori ; 

 prothorace quam longiori ut 3 ad 2 latiori, latitudine majori 

 vix pone medium sita, antice sat angustato, supra sub- 

 tilius sat crebre punctulato (puncturis circiter 20 in seg- 

 menti longitudine), lateribus (superne visis) sat rotund- 



