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but on the present species they are visible only from the sides 

 and scarcely elevated about the general clothing. On the 

 type the clothing on the upper-surface is subdepressed, and 

 consists of rather thin scales or stout setae, white and conspicu- 

 ous in places, black or sooty-brown in others, the derm beneath 

 the latter at first glance appearing to be glabrous; on the 

 head the scales are mostly dark ; on the prothorax a large 

 portion of the disc and a fairly large spot on each side are 

 clothed with dark scales, elsewhere the scales are white or 

 whitish ; on the elytra most of the clothing is dark, but there 

 is a rather conspicuous white fascia across the summit of the 

 apical slope, an interrupted one at the apex, and remnants of 

 others across the middle and at the base ; on the under-surface 

 the scales are snowy, and closely applied to the derm, but on 

 the second abdominal segment there is a conspicuous median 

 yellowish spot ; on the legs the scales a.nd setae are white. The 

 type is probably a male, and the conspicuous abdominal spot 

 is probably confined to that sex. 



Glaucopela interioris, n. sp. 



Reddish-castaneous ; metasternum deeply inf uscated. 

 Kather densely clothed with depressed scales vary'ng from 

 white to dark-brown. 



Head with dense, concealed punctures. Eyes separated 

 less than width of rostrum at base. Rostrum about the length 

 of prothorax, moderately curved ; with minute punctures 

 except at base, where they are coarse but concealed. Antennae 

 inserted at about basal two-fifths of rostrum, scape scarcely 

 half the length of funicle ; basal joint of funicle about as long 

 as the three following combined. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, base truncate, sides gently rounded from base to 

 in front of middle, and then strongly decreasing in width to 

 apex; punctures dense but almost entirely concealed. Elytra 

 not much wider than prothorax, almost parallel-sided to near 

 apex; with regular, narrow striae, containing deeo puncturesi; 

 interstices with dense, concealed punctures. Under-surface 

 with dense, concealed punctures. Tjegs moderately long ; front 

 coxae lightly separated ; femora rather stout, edentate. 

 Length, 2| mm. 



Hah. — Flat Rock Hole. Type (unique), I. 5185. 



According to Blackburn's table this species (if not referred 

 to a new genus) should be placed in Glaucopela, but its rostrum 

 is longer in proportion than in any species previously referred 

 to that genus ; the front sides of the prothorax are obliquely 

 cut off as on all the species of Glaucopela, and very different to 

 those of Cychnaea and Dicor)iada, to which genera, at first 

 glance, it appears to approach. The polished rostrum, clothed 



