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femora excepted) are distinctly reddish; on the type only 

 parts of the tarsi are reddish. The pubescence of the under- 

 surface has a somewhat variegated appearance, but this is 

 due mostly to its disposition; on the metasternum it is dense 

 near the sides and sparser (but not altogether wanting) 

 elsewhere, on the abdomen it is rather dense at the sides 

 (except for a glabrous spot on each side of each of the four 

 basal segments) but is very sparse elsewhere ; on the abdomen 

 of gattatus, although somewhat the same in kind, a consider- 

 ably larger space on each side is densely clothed, and the 

 middle is conspicuously glabrous. The tubercles on each side 

 of the disc of the pronotum are more obtuse than on the 

 preceding species, and appear more as points of an elevated 

 ridge than as conjoined tubercles, the posterior one is slightly 

 nearer the base than the apex, and slightly nearer 

 the lateral one than the one in the middle towards the 

 base. On each elytron there is a curved row of glossy tubercles 

 commencing with some small ones in the middle of the base, 

 and ending in some larger and more obtuse ones (almost the 

 size of the scutellum) at the basal third; on each shoulder 

 there are numerous small, glossy tubercles, and between these 

 and the median row there is a straggling row that commences 

 at the base and ends beyond the middle, the row consisting 

 of from seven to nine tubercles. 



Oricopis maculiventris, n. sp. 



Dark brown ; palpi and parts of other appendages more 

 or less reddish, tubercles glossy-blackish. Closely covered 

 with very short greyish or somewhat stramineous pubescence, 

 conspicuously variegated with patches and spots of ochreous. 



Head with median line distinct throughout; punctures 

 more or less concealed. Antennae considerably passing 

 elytra, fourth joint somewhat curved, about once and one- 

 third the length of third, the latter slightly longer than fifth. 

 Prothorax about as long as wide, sides strongly bisinuate, 

 with a conspicuous swelling (not a conical tubercle) in middle; 

 each side of middle of disc with two conspicuous subconical 

 tubercles; punctures fairly numerous, but in parts concealed. 

 Scutellum longitudinally impressed. Elytra much wider than 

 prothorax, tips obliquely truncated; each side of base with a 

 curved row of small tubercles, and a few still smaller ones on 

 shoulders; with numerous distinct punctures, becoming small 

 and sparse posteriorly. Mesosternum with an obtuse swelling 

 between coxae. Length, 16 mm. 



Hob. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). 

 Type (unique), I. 6155. 



