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Head with dense punctures of moderate size, and more or 

 less obliquely confluent, except on clypeus, where they are 

 slightly smaller but separately impressed ; median line well 

 defined. Antennae rather long and thin, fourth joint slightly 

 shorter than third and fifth. Frothorax about thrice as wide 

 as long, with rather dense punctures of moderate size on disc, 

 becoming larger and crowded on sides, where many are con- 

 fluent. Elytra with dense and coarse punctures, on apical 

 slope in deep striae near suture, in places in feeble geminate 

 rows, but mostly transversely rugose, the rugae more conspicu- 

 ous behind shoulders than elsewhere, but traceable almost to 

 apex. Flanks of prosternum with rather large and crowded 

 punctures. Front femora rather strongly dentate. Length, 

 6J-7J mm. 



Hab. — New South Wa.les : Galston (D. Dumbrell), Gos- 

 iord (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 3512. 



The punctures on the sides of the prothorax are unusually 

 dense. The comparative shortness of the fourth joint of 

 antennae, although similar in the two following species, is 

 Tather unusual, the difference between it and the adjacent ones 

 is not very great but is readily seen. 



Since the above was written I have seen three Macleay 

 Museum specimens, of which one (labelled as from Kurrajong) 

 is a male ; it differs from the female in having the prothorax 

 less transverse (hardly more than twice as wide as long), 

 abdomen less convex, fourth segment much longer than the 

 fifth, and both depressed in middle. The tarsi are all too 

 dirty to be described, but the hind tibiae are much as on the 

 female, except that they are somewhat stouter. 



COLASPOIDES CRASSIPES, U. Sp. 



PI. viii., fig. 143. 



(S . Bronzy-black, parts of under-surface and of muzzle 

 diluted with red; legs red, palpi and antennae paler, but two 

 apical joints of the latter blackish. 



Head with fairly dense punctures of moderate size be- 

 tween eyes, becoming denser on clypeus, subconfluent near 

 hind margins of eyes, and smaller and sparser elsewhere. 

 Antennae with joints proportioned as in preceding species. 

 Prothorax about twice as wide as long, with fairly dense but 

 evenly distributed punctures of moderate size. Elytra with 

 dense punctures of various sizes, large and more or less trans- 

 versely confluent from shoulders to beyond middle, but a few 

 'Confluent almost to apex, in semi-double rows, mostly of small 

 ones, in parts, and in two distinct subsutural striae on apical 



