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Maechidius savagei, n. ep. 

 PI. xxxvii., fig. 88. 



Dull pieeous-brown; legs not much paler, antennae and 

 palpi castaneo-flavous. With short, stiff, depressed stramineous 

 setae . 



Head rather strongly and evenly convex between eyes, 

 densely granulate-punctate; clypeus rather widely but deeply 

 notched in front, each side obtusely trilobed. Prothorax 

 with sides obtusely serrated, base strongly bisinuate, with 

 the hind angles sharply acute and lightly produced, vaguely 

 depressed along middle, and still more vaguely across middle; 

 with dense, but rather small and shallow punctures. Elytra 

 with almost regular series of rather small punctures, each at 

 base with a small granule. Pygidiu7n with a narrow median 

 carina. Front tibiae obtusely tridentate, the third tooth 

 ahnost in exact middle ; hind tibiae with two series of small 

 but acute tubercles, the external apical process rather short; 

 hind tarsi with basal joint distinctly shorter than second and 

 third combined, claws without basal quills. Length, 7-8 mm. 



Rah. — South Australia (Rev. A. P. Burgess), Parachilna 

 (Field Naturalists' Excursion). Type, I. 420. 



On this, as on most species of the genus, there is a small 

 shining granule at the base of each elytral puncture, and a 

 depressed seta proceeds from each granule so that from some 

 directions the elytra appear to be supplied with numerous 

 strings of rather widely spaced beads. In general appearance 

 it is like sordidus, but is smaller and without tarsal quills; 

 from clt/pealis it differs in being darker and hind angles of 

 prothorax very acute, etc. ; it is also close to modicus, but the 

 basal joint of the hind tarsi is shorter and stouter, and the 

 clypeus is slightly more undulated. In Blackburn's table 

 (ante, 1898, pp. 57-59) it would be associated with ater, and 

 it is similar in size and shape to that species, but is not black, 

 the clypeus is rather more deeply notched in front, the hind 

 angles of the prothorax are rather more acute, the appearance 

 as of rows of beads on the elytra is less conspicuous and the 

 two basal joints of the hind tarsi are somewhat differently 

 proportioned. On the niale the hind tibiae near the apex and 

 the three basal joints of the hind tarsi are clothed with more' 

 numerous long hairs than on the female. The club of the- 

 antennae is three- jointed on this and on all the following 

 new species. 



Maechidius hoplocephalus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxvii., fig. 89. 



Dull reddish-brown; antennae and palpi flavous. With 

 thin, suberect, stramineous setae, becoming rather long on 

 legs. 



