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the prothorax is somewhat differently shaped, in ruhriventris 

 tho anterior and posterior margins are about equal in length, 

 but in the New South Wales, specimen the anterior margin 

 appears to be wider, also the surface of the prothorax is less 

 nitid, not so uneven, and with more feeble punctures; other- 

 wise it agrees very well with the above description. 



Phlog^istus ung-ulatus, n.sp. 



Black, subnitid, antennae and appendages of mouth 

 brownish, claws reddish. Somewhat thickly clothed with pale 

 hairs, more or less shaggy on the upper-surface and depressed 

 on the under-surface. 



Head with a shallow longitudinal impression near the 

 base of each antenna, and with small, shallow punctures, 

 somewhat scattered on the top, but towards forepart closer, 

 and more or less rugose. Antennae short, barely reaching 

 to middle of prothorax, club three-jointed, joints 9 and 10 

 transverse, the apical almost as long as the two preceding 

 combined and obtusely pointed. Prothorax barely transverse, 

 behind the anterior margin and at the base with compara- 

 tively shallow transverse impressions; a feeble longitudinal 

 impression on the disk, situated immediately behind the 

 anterior transverse one, and on each side near the middle 

 of the lateral margin a round depression; the punctures are 

 somewhat more feeble than those on the head, and rugose 

 at the sides. Elytra at the base distinctly wider than pro- 

 thorax, and about twice as long as wide, sides parallel to 

 beyond the middle and then gently rounded off towards apex; 

 with ten rows of moderately deep and almost quadratic punc- 

 tures, starting at the base and reaching to the extreme apex. 

 Posterior femora do not reach apex of elytra, the basal teeth 

 on the claws very long and conspicuous. Length, 4*5-5*5 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia : Swan River (J. Clark). Type, 

 in author's collection. 



Very closely related to the preceding species but easily 

 distinguished from it by its smaller size, the whole of the 

 under-surface is black, more hairy, and the punctures, par- 

 ticularly on the prothorax, are more feeble, and with apex 

 of each elytron rounded. The peculiar structure of the claws 

 readily distinguishes this, and the preceding species, from all 

 previously described ones, the basal teeth on the claws of 

 the present species are very elongated, nearly extending to 

 the apex of the claw, and giving it the appearance of being 

 cleft. 



Phlogistus leucocosmus, n.sp. 



Upper-surface subnitid, blue, antennae and apendages 

 of mouth more or less testaceous, head greenish-blue, elytra 

 almost violet, clothed with somewhat shaggy pale hairs, very 



