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base and the elytra are very different. Parts of the under- 

 surface and of the femora and tibiae are more or less obscurely 

 reddish on some specimens, but on most of them those parts 

 (except as to their clothing) are black or blackish. The 

 white spots are most numerous on the sides and apical slope 

 of the elytra, where they are often accentuated by the 

 adjacent scales being more or less sooty; on the prothorax 

 the white scales usually form a distinct stripe towards each 

 side, and parts of a median line, on the head and rostrum 

 the scales are usually entirely white ; on some specimens some 

 small patches of scales are shining. 



Timareta incisipes, n. sp. 



PL xiii., fig. 5. 



d . Black or blackish, antennae and tarsi reddish. 

 With dense, small, round scales closely adpressed to derm; 

 with numerous subdepressed setae on prothorax, and forming 

 a regular row on each elytral interstice. 



Head, prothorax, elytra, and under-surface as described 

 in preceding species. Front tibiae trisinuate on lower surface, 

 the sinus near apex appearing as a conspicuous notch; hind 

 tibiae with a deep notch near apex, the notch with long hairs 

 about it. Length, 5-6 mm. 



9 . Differs in being rather more robust, antennae and 

 legs shorter, tibiae not notched and abdomen convex. 



Hah. — South Australia: St. Francis, Eyre, and Franklin 

 Islands (Prof. F. Wood Jones). Type, I. 15257. 



The body parts of this, the preceding species, and of 

 T. crinita and T. pilosa are much alike, and the females are 

 difficult to satisfactorily distinguish; but the males may be 

 quickly identified by the hind tibiae alone; on the present 

 species the front tibiae as well as the hind ones, are notched. 

 On several specimens the under-surface, tibiae, and even 

 occasionally the elytra, are obscurely reddish. The scales are 

 scarcely alike on any two of the 18 specimens before me; 

 they are usually of a pale slaty-brown, with more or less 

 large patches, or numerous sooty spots, interspersed with 

 white or bluish-white spots ; on the prothorax the white scales 

 form irregular lateral vittae; on an occasional specimen the 

 scales are mostly sooty-brown, with numerous bluish-white 

 spots; on one they are whitish obscurely mottled with pale 

 brown; on two specimens many of the scales have a soft 

 golden lustre; many specimens have an ochreous spot on the 

 forehead. The setae on the shoulders are longer than on 

 other parts of the elytra, but they are not of the great length 

 of some of the sand-frequenting species. The tibiae of both 



