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communicating across? the interstices ; granules larger, umbili- 

 cate, quite definite on the sutural interstice, on the other 

 interstices set rather farther apart than in A. pilosus, and 

 generally in single series, larger, conical posteriorly and 

 laterally. Dim. — 8'5 x 5 mm. 



Hab. — Australia (Blackburn's collection); South Aus- 

 tralia: Tarcoola (H. Hacker). Type in South Australian 

 Museum . 



Founded on two specimens, probably males, without 

 locality labels, from Blackburn's collection. A third specimen 

 is in Mr. Lea's collection from Tarcoola. The species is 

 closely allied to A. pilosus, but the differences noted above, 

 especially those in the scape and elytral granules, appear to 

 me sufficient to warrant their separation. A specimen in the 

 Museum collection seems to me to belong to this species. The 

 size is larger and the elytra are, relatively to the prothorax, 

 much longer than in the type, and there are slight differences in 

 the elytral sculpture. The specimen is from Central Aus- 

 tralia, and measures 11x6 mm. 



Amorphorhinus murtceus, n. sp. 



Small, elongate-ovate. Black ; densely clothed with 

 brown subpubescence, variegated with creamy on the elytra; 

 the light clothing forming a broad basal transverse band, a 

 longitudinal patch on the suture at the apex, slightly touching 

 the posterior tubercles and irregularly clothing the sides ; sides 

 of sternal and abdominal segments and the legs with light 

 clothing punctate with black, ventral segments feebly macu- 

 late in the centre, knees black. 



Kostrum short, wide, upper-surface slightly depressed in 

 centre, rather coarsely punctured on the ridges ; the external 

 margins curved over the scrobes, depressed at base, the internal 

 ridges nodulose, not very prominent. Head broad, front 

 hardly concave, obsoletely longitudinally ridged, with a 

 central median impression ; supra-ocular crests broad, project- 

 ing outwards and slightly upwards. Prothorax (2x3 mm.) 

 with the sides tuberculate-angulate in the middle ; ocular lobes 

 feeble ; with an irregular depression on each side of apex, and 

 well-defined median line, deepest posteriorly ; closely set with 

 moderately large, somewhat mamilliform granules ; sides 

 graniilate. Elytra (5*5x4 mm.) widened on the sides 

 posteriorly, rather strongly narrowed to apex ; base strongly 

 emarginate ; humeri strongly advanced, cristiform, slightly 

 inturned ; punctures obscured by clothing ; intrastrial granules 

 rather prominent ; suture granulate about middle ; third inter- 

 stice slightly produced forwards at base, with small granules, 

 becoming larger posteriorly, the last four or five definitely 



