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Timareta hamata, n. sp. 



PL xiii., fig. 4. 



d . Black, antennae and tarsi reddish. Densely clothed 

 with small round greyish scales, closely adpressed to derm, 

 and with numerous irregular whitish spots; with numerous 

 pale, suberect setae on prothorax, and forming a regular line 

 on each elytral interstice, sides and legs with longer hairs. 



Head with dense normally concealed punctures. Antennae 

 long and thin, scape the length of front tibiae. Prothorax 

 slightly longer than wide, sides strongly rounded, apex nar- 

 rower than base, with dense normally concealed punctures. 

 Elytra with shoulders strongly rounded, sides widest at about 

 basal fifth, thence almost evenly narrowed to apex; with 

 regular rows of large punctures, appearing much smaller 

 through scales; interstices with dense and minute normally 



A B, Hind tibiae of Timareta hamata, Lea, from two points 

 of view and unclothed; C D, T. incisipes, Lea; E P, T. pilosa. 

 Blackb. ; G H, T. crinita, Pasc. ; I J, T. figurata, Pasc. ; K L, 

 front tibiae of T. incisipes, Lea. 



concealed punctures. Under-surface with dense punctures of 

 two sizes, the larger ones scarcely concealed ; abdomen with 

 basal segment widely concave in middle. Front tibiae arched 

 near apex, the apex triangularly dilated on inner side; hind 

 tibiae narrowed near apex, but apex itself much thickened 

 and hooked, with a conspicuous fascicle of long hairs on tip 

 of the hook. Length, 6-7 mm. 



9 . Differs in being wider and more convex, antennae 

 shorter, seriate punctures of el3rt.ra smaller, basal segment of 

 abdomen gently convex, front tibiae shorter and scarcely 

 arched near apex, hind tibiae shorter and thicker, apex itself 

 wider but not hooked or fasciculate. 



Hah. — South Australia: Flinders Island (Prof. F. Wood 

 Jones). Type, I. 15256. 



At first glance apparently like small specimens of T. 

 pilosa, but at once distinguished by the hind tibiae of the 

 males (compare figs. A B with E F). T. piistulosa has some- 

 what similar ones, but the front tibiae are less swollen towards 



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