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Aphanasium albopilosum, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxvi., figs. 86, 87. 

 3 . Black or blackisli ; antennae, legs, and elytra with 

 flavous markings. Rather densely clothed with whitish 

 pubescence, sparser on elytra (but still fairly dense) than 

 elsewhere ; in addition with sparse, suberect, and usually 

 darker hairs scattered about. 



Head with crowded and small punctures, normally 

 concealed except at base. Eyes large and coarsely faceted. 

 Antennae long and thin, at least three joints passing elytra, 

 first joint moderately stout and with dense punctures, second 

 small, third and fourth subequal, fifth-tenth slightly longer, 

 flatter, and acute (but not spinose) on one side at apex, 

 eleventh slightly longer and thinner than tenth. Prothorax 

 lightly transverse, with two small tubercles on each side, and 

 five very feeble ones on disc ; with crowded and small punc- 

 tures, mostly concealed. Elytra distinctly wider than 

 prothorax, widest across shoulders; with moderately dense 

 and sharply defined, but rather small punctures, becoming 

 very small and shallow posteriorly ; each with two feeble 

 longitudinal elevations on disc. Four hind femora with dense 

 pubescence filling a groove along under-surface of each. 

 Length, 13-14 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia : Cooper Creek. Type, I. 7630. 



In general appearance close to variegatum, but the 

 clothing on the upper-surface conspicuously whitish (dark on 

 that species), and much denser, especially on the prothorax 

 and scutellum ; prothorax with only two tubercles on each 

 side (the front one of these is round and shining, the other 

 subcorneal but not acute), the five discal ones (two in front 

 and three behind) tending to obliteration, and with much 

 smaller and denser punctures, under-surface uniformly dark 

 and elytral markings not quite the same: on variegatum there 

 i6 a curved dark mark, from each shoulder, that does not quite 

 reach the suture, on the present species the curved mark is 

 much wider and extends to the suture (this is dark through- 

 out) both along the base and at about the basal fourth (thus 

 enclosing a pale spot near each side of the scutellum) ; there 

 is an angular median fascia connected with the suture and 

 the apical fourth is dark ; each tibia is flavous near the base, 

 and the base of the third joint of antennae is pale ; on a 

 second male the dark median fascia is extended to the sides 

 and narrowly connected along them with the apical blotch, 

 thus enclosing an oblique flavous mark on each elytron, the 

 fourth joint of the antennae as well as the third is also flavous 

 near the base. 



