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apparently eight-, club three-jointed. Prothorax with large, 

 shallow, rugulose punctures, the interspaces with fine punc- 

 tures. Elytra with irregular punctures, the interstices 

 irregular and finely wrinkled. Hind parts with dense, sub- 

 granulate punctures; propygidium very large, the pygidium 

 small. Front tibiae with a strong and acute apical tooth, a 

 small one near apex and a very feeble one near base. Length, 

 4 \ mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Lucindale (B. A. Feuerheerdt) . 

 Type (unique), I. 7868. 



Allied to humilis, with which it would be associated in 

 Blackburn's table, but clothing of pronotum considerably 

 denser and longer (although still depressed), the prothoracic 

 punctures are rather larger and sparser (but considerably 

 smaller than on pygmaeus, which also has a much smaller 

 propygidium) ; the type is probably a female (its elytra are 

 reddish), and if so a small shining space at the middle near 

 the apex of each elytron is the sexual brand, which is very 

 much smaller, and in a different position to the feminine 

 brand of humilis; yranulatus is a considerably larger species, 

 with shorter clothing, the feminine brand very conspicuous, 

 and the male with black elytra. The pronotum is not as dark 

 as the head, but is darker than the abdomen, which to the 

 naked eye appears almost black ; only a small part of its 

 clothing is darker than the rest, but it is probably variable. 



AUTOMOLUS BRUNNEUS, II. sp. 



Blackish-brown or dark brown : head (except in front) 

 black; legs, antennae (club excepted), and palpi paler. 

 Clothed with moderately dense pubescence. 



Head with fairly large and deep but not crowded punc- 

 tures ; clypeus with oblique feebly incurved sides, apex widely 

 truncated. Antennae apparently eight-, club three-jointed. 

 Prothorax with rather dense, subasperate punctures. Elytra 

 with irregular semidouble rows of not very large and somewhat 

 asperate punctures; interstices nowhere conspicuously 

 elevated. Hind parts with punctures much as on pronotum, 

 rather larger on pygidium than on propygidium. Front tibiae 

 strongly bidentate at apex, and with a small subbasal tooth; 

 basal joint of hind tarsi much shorter than second. Length, 

 3^-4|- mm. 



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

 I. 7866. 



The clothing of the head and prothorax is rather dense, 

 but as it is not erect it seems better to refer the species to 

 AA, BBB, than to AA, B, of Blackburn's table; but it does 

 not fit well there, the prothoracic punctures are smaller and 



