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Myllocerus zopherus, n. sp. 



Black; appendages and abdomen more or less obscurely 

 diluted with red. Densely clothed with sooty and whitish 

 scales; prothorax with numerous stout but depressed setae, 

 each elytral interstice with a rather inconspicuous row of setae. 



Head somewhat flattened between eyes, inter-ocular fovea 

 rather narrow. Eyes not very convex but with coarser facets 

 than usual. Rostrum about a6 long as the basal width ; median 

 carina distinct in front, the others not traceable through 

 clothing. Antennae moderately long and thin; first joint of 

 funicle conspicuously longer than second. Prothorax 

 moderately transverse, sides lightly rounded, base and apex 

 subequal. Elytra much wider than prothorax, parallel-sided 

 to near apex; striation distinct but seriate punctures appear- 

 ing small through clothing. Femora very feebly dentate. 

 Length, 4 \ mm. 



Hab. — South Australia : Port Augusta. Type (unique), 

 I. 7604. 



In general appearance close to some forms of varius, but 

 prothorax trivittate, and eyes with coarser facets. In the 

 1914 table it would be associated with multimaculatus, and 

 in general appearance it resembles that species, but the 

 prothorax is snorter, the eyes are larger and more convex, 

 and the scape is decidedly thinner. On the upper-surface the 

 dark scales are more numerous than the pale ones, on the head 

 and elytra they are irregularly intermingled, the paler ones 

 forming small irregular spots or scattered singly, but on the 

 prothorax the paler ones form four and the darker ones three 

 feebly defined vittae ; on the abdomen the scales are almost 

 wholly white, but on the rest of the under-surface and on the 

 appendages the two colours are more or less intermingled. 



Myllocerus ashi, n. ep. 



Black ; the appendages in places very obscurely diluted 

 with red. Densely clothed with greyish-white scales, more or 

 less conspicuously mottled with darker ones ; on the under- 

 surface usually white but with a bluish, or greenish, or golden 

 gloss; upper-surface with numerous distinct but more or less 

 depressed setae, more or less irregularly seriate on the elytra. 



Head gently convex between eyes, inter-ocular fovea 

 small. Eyes moderately large and prominent. Rostrum about 

 as long as the basal width, median and sublateral carinae 

 usually traceable through clothing, distance between antennary 

 pits about half of that between eyes. Antennae long and not 

 very thin; first joint of funicle distinctly longer than second. 

 Prothorax rather strongly transverse, sides feebly rounded, 

 base slightly wider than apex ; punctures normally concealed, 



