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JIah. — Western Australia : King George Sound (Macleay 

 Museum), Swan River (Blackburn's collection and A. M. 

 Lea), Bunbury (Lea), Capel River (W. D. Dodd) ; Perth, 

 Albany (British Museum). Type, I. 3568. 



There are six specimens before me, apparently all females : 

 in general appearance they are like small ones of the preceding 

 species (in fact, both the late Rev. T. Blackburn and I had 

 them mixed with that species), but with legs entirely dark, 

 tibiae less dilated at apex, and front ones notched near outer 

 apex : from compositus it differs in being smaller and narrower, 

 and elytra with more conspicuous punctures. On some speci- 

 mens the antennae (from above) appear to be entirely dark, 

 but usually the second and third, and the under-surface of the 

 first, and of the fourth and fifth, are more or less obscurely 

 reddish. 



A specimen from South Australia (Lucindale, B. A. 

 Feuerheerdt) is probably a male of this species, but it has the 

 elytra rather more parallel-sided, prothoracic punctures more 

 conspicuous and somewhat sparser, smooth spaces on elytra 

 more sharply defined, and tibiae somewhat wider at apex ; on 

 its head from certain directions a vague median impression 

 may be seen, but on the females such an impression is visible 

 from no direction ; its abdomen has a feeble longitudinal 

 depression, and the basal joint of the four front tarsi is some- 

 what dilated. 



Agetinus CROESUS, n. sp. 

 PL viii., fig. 134. 



9 • Bright golden-red ; labrum and appendages more or 

 less reddish, but labrum infuscated in middle and palpi at 

 tip, and six or seven apical joints of antennae black. 



Head with a sulcate median line ; with crowded but rather 

 small punctures, mostly longitudinally or obliquely confluent, 

 but separately impressed on clypeus. Eyes feebly notched. 

 Antennae not very long, second to sixth joints subequal in 

 length, the five following ones distinctly wider. Prothorax 

 about twice as wide as median length, sides evenly rounded, 

 angles very feebly armed ; with rather dense punctures of 

 moderate or small size, separately impressed on disc, conspicu- 

 ously transversely confluent on sides. ScAiieUum semicircular; 

 with rather dense, minute punctures. Elytra short, scarcely 

 wider than prothorax ; with fairly dense punctures of moderate 

 size, becoming larger (and often transversely confluent) behind 

 shoulders, in places in subgeminate rows, the interspaces w^itli 

 minute punctures ; striation of apical slope distinct towards 

 suture and sides, feeble elsewhere. Flanks of prosternufn 

 with fairly large and dense punctures and fine striae. Abdomen 

 rather strongly convex. Legs short and stout ; front femora 



