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the only specimen I have seen from Western Australia) and 

 has the inner carina on each elytron shorter and more obtuse 

 than usual, and the outer one scarcely serrated. The other, 

 B, is a male from Mindarie, and has the prothorax wider and 

 more coarsely sculptured than usual (but with the impunctate 

 median space and longitudinal groove of the typical form), 

 the elytra with the inner costa on each strongly serrated, and 

 the outer one broken up into tubercles (much as on luctuosusj, 

 the apex is strongly notched, with the tips appearing as 

 oblique triangular flanges ( 38) . The other specimens before me 

 are from Ardrossan, Corny Point, Crecy, Karoonda, Ooldea. 

 Pinnaroo, and Pungonda in South Australia, and Birch ip and 

 Sea Lake in Victoria. 



MlCROTRAGUS BIFASCIATUS, 11. sp. 



Black; with dense, variegated clothing. 



Head with large punctures traceable through clothing, 

 longitudinal impression distinct only between antennary 

 sockets. Antennae rather short and stout. Prothorar 

 strongly convex, slightly longer than wide; with a strong 

 conical tubercle on each side, and a smaller one on each side 

 of middle (these slightly closer to the lateral ones than to 

 each other); with dense, large, round, deep punctures, 

 partially obscured in middle. Scut ell um small and transverse. 

 Elytra elliptic-ovate, conjointly rounded at apex, each with 

 a large suberect subcorneal tubercle in middle of base, and 

 each with two rather obtuse costae, terminating slightly 

 beyond the post-median fascia; sides with larger punctures 

 than on prothorax, but smaller towards suture, and still 

 smaller posteriorly. Length, 9J-.11 mm. 



Hob. — Queensland: Cairns district (E. Allen and F. P. 

 Dodd). Type, I. 7806. 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by the 

 bifasciate elytra, and dense long hairs. The pubescence is 

 dense all over and is mostly black, but whitish on parts of 

 the legs ; on the elytra there are two conspicuous white 

 fasciae : one close to the base crossing the suture but not 

 touching the sides, the other just beyond the middle, not 

 crossing the suture and not touching the sides, beyond it the 

 pubescence is conspicuously brownish ; over all there are 

 dense, long, and usually dark-brown hairs. The sexes may be 

 readily distinguished by the palpi, on the male the apical 

 joint of each of these is rather long, subovate, and the tip 

 widely truncated ; the maxillary ones each with a shallow 



(38) In some respects this specimen agrees with the description 

 of waterhousei. 



