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places purplish : antennae black, the three basal joints in 

 places diluted with red. 



Head with dense but not very large punctures, many of 

 which are confluent, especially near the eyes : these subreniform 

 and widely notched. Prothoi-oj' almost thrice as wide as the 

 median length, each side (including the angles) with five small 

 teeth; with dense and fairly large punctures, becoming very 

 Grounded on sides, the elevated parts with much smaller ones. 

 Eh/fra w^ide : with dense punctures more or less transversely 

 confluent almost throughout, the elevated parts with small 

 punctures. Length, 10 mm. 



TIdh. — ^North-western Australia: Shark Bay (C. French). 



An unusually large, robust species, with transverse rugo- 

 sities of el3^tra unusually long, and giving most of the surface 

 a somewhat vermiculate appearance, even on the apical slope, 

 where only a few of the subsutural striae are traceable. The 

 under-surface is rather densely pubescent, and the head is 

 lightly so. On close examination the prothoracic punctures 

 are seen to be of three kinds : dense and fairly large ones 

 having a somewhat jagged appearance on the sides, much 

 smaller but sharply-defined ones, and dense and minute ones 

 that could easily be overlooked. Of the lateral teeth of the 

 prothorax those at the angles are each provided with a distinct 

 seta, of the others the subbasal one is much less defined than 

 those in front of it. 



I had the description of this species wa^tten out as new^ 

 but fortunately Mr. Arrow sent a specimen for examination 

 that was com.pared with the type, although from the descrip- 

 tion I Avould never have considered it ir/tu^onifenx : the speci- 

 men he sent is considerably smaller than the one in the South 

 Australian Museum, and the colours vary somewhat, but 

 otherwise they agree well. 



Geloptera haedcastlei, n. sp. 

 PL vii., fig. 80. 



cf . Black : palpi, three basal joints of antennae and 

 parts of others, and the claws testaceous. 



Head with rather small, crowded punctures; with three 

 feeble impunctate spaces. Eyes unusually large. Prothorax 

 less than twice as wide as the median length, sides feebly 

 undulated about middle, basal and apical angles armed : with 

 fairly dense punctures of moderate size, becoming larger and 

 crowded on sides, interspaces with small punctures. Elytra 

 suboblong : with dense and somewhat irregular punctures, 

 mostly larger than on prothorax, becoming crowded, smaller, 

 and frequently transversely confluent on apical slops, but many 

 transversely confluent elsewhere as well. Basal segment of 



