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denser and paler on sides of sterna and on legs; upper-surface 

 with snowy clothing in spots. 



Head with dense punctures. Antennae long and rather 

 thin, eleventh joint about one-third longer than tenth. 

 Prothorax about as long as wide, sides gently incurved near 

 apex and again near base ; with small flat granules inter- 

 spersed with punctures. Elytra about twice the width of 

 prothorax, shoulders gently rounded, sides parallel to near 

 apex; with regular rows of moderately-large, sharply-defined 

 punctures, close together in the rows, and with a short row 

 on each side of the scutellum ; interstices each with a row of 

 minute punctures. Length, 2 \ mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 6701. 



Allied to adeps, but somewhat narrower, suture not 

 clothed on apical slope, and prothoracic markings very 

 different. The snowy clothing of the upper-surface is as 

 follows: — A small spot on each side of the head, a vitta on 

 each side of the prothorax (the two narrowly connected at 

 the base), the scutellum, on each elytron a spot on the fifth 

 interstice near the shoulders, one common to the third and 

 fourth interstices at about one-third from the apex, and 

 the tip. 



A specimen from Northern Queensland (Blackburn's 

 collection) probably belongs to this species. It has spots as 

 on the type, but in addition near the apical third has spots 

 on the sixth-eighth interstices, so that there it appears to 

 have an interrupted fascia rather than spots. 



Ptinus caeruleipennis, n. sp. 



Black : elytra deep blue. Clothed with long, straggling, 

 erect, blackish hairs ; under-surface, most of legs, scutel- 

 lum, and a spot near each eye, with dense greyish or whitish 

 pubescence. 



Head with dense and rather small punctures. Antennae 

 long and thin, eleventh joint more than once and one-half the 

 length of tenth. Prothorax about as long as wide, sides near 

 base rather strongly incurved; across base with a row of 

 distinct punctures, across apex more and larger ones, the 

 intervening space impunctate. Elytra with outlines and 

 punctures as described in preceding species. Length, 3 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd and 

 A. M. Lea). Type, I. 6699. 



Structurally close to niveonotatus, but slightly larger; 

 elytra with more conspicuous punctures, and their colour and 

 clothing very different. On both specimens there is some 

 greyish clothing near the suture, which looks white from 



