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elytra with larger punctures, larger and more definitely 

 punctate granules, and smaller tubercles. 



ACHERRES PILOSUS, n. Sp. 



Small, elongate-ovate. Black; moderately densely covered 

 with minute brownish squames; midline of head and prothorax 

 with a narrow, cinereous vitta, a similar, interrupted vitta 

 along upper edge, and a less definite one along lower edge of 

 the sides of the elytra; beneath maculate with cinereous in 

 middle of metasternum and abdominal segments, and at sides 

 of the two basal segments ; setae long and conspicuous. 



Head and rostrum as in A. mamillatus, but rostral crests 

 longer, broader, more flattened out above. Frothorax 

 (2x2 mm.) subcylindrical, convex antero-posteriorly, and 

 from side to side ; median line deeply impressed ; closely set 

 with moderately large, conical granules, each bearing a long 

 seta. Elytra (6 x 4 mm.) strongly and evenly rounded on the 

 sides; base gently emarginate, humeri slightly produced; 

 seriate punctures open, foveiform, regular ; interstices granu- 

 late, sutural granules small, barely traceable, elsewhere small 

 but larger and evident, rounded above, conical posteriorly and 

 laterally, each with a long seta arising from a deep pucture ; 

 granules arranged in single series, generally duplicated or 

 triplicated on the third interstice, and occasionally elsewhere ; 

 set close together, but farther apart on the more lateral inter- 

 stices ; sides with interstices more obsoletely granulate. 

 Beneath with scattered setigerous punctures. Bim. — 

 9x4 mm. 



Ilah. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Type 

 in author's collection. 



Differs from all previously described species in having the 

 elytra granulate, not tuberculate. The differences between 

 this species and A. granulatus are noted under the latter. I 

 think the type is probably a male, but there seems to be little 

 sexual difference in this genus. 



ACHERRES GRANULATUS, U. Sp. 



Very similar in general appearance to ^4. pilosus. Black; 

 elytra with scattered, yellow maculae : setae short, dark. 



Rostral crests similar to those in A . pilosus, but slightly 

 shorter, and more flattened out ; antennal scape somewhat 

 shorter, and much more incrassate at apex than in A. pilosus. 

 Prothora.x ('2*5 x 2'5 mm.) similar to .4. pilosus, but with 

 mesial line much less strongly impressed. Elytra (6x5 mm.) 

 in shape as in A. pilosys, but more or less depressed along the 

 suture ; punctures shallower, more open, less regular, and often 



