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Pararhopaea rhipidocera, n. sp. 



c? . More or less castaneous, some marginal parts nar- 

 rowly black or blackish. Densely clothed with long yellowish 

 hair on sterna and parts of legs, basal joint of antennae, 

 latero-frontal and hind margins of prothorax, and hind 

 margin of scutellum. 



Head coarsely sculptured between eyes ; clypeus with 

 large, round, shallow punctures, its margining elevation high 

 and very feebly bilobed ; labrum moderately notched, with 

 a few coarse punctures at sides. Antennae with first joint 

 moderately large, second short, third slightly longer and 

 wider, with a short projection near the inner apex, fourth- 

 tenth forming a strongly-curved flabellate club. Apical 

 joint of palpi with a long excavation. Prothorax strongly 

 transverse, sides moderately rounded with the margins 

 crenulated, apex incurved to middle: with moderately large, 

 shallow punctures, dense in front, irregular elsewhere ; with 

 feeble remnants of a median line and with a shallow depres- 

 sion towards each side. Elytra not much wider than pro- 

 thorax, sides almost parallel to near apex ; with moderately 

 coarse punctures, in places subvermiculate, and denser 

 towards apex and sides than elsewhere ; disc of each elytron 

 with four costae, the inner ones more conspicuous than the 

 outer ones. Pygidium with rather acute margins, tip feebly 

 notched ; with moderately dense punctures. Legs rather 

 long; front tibiae strongly tridentate, hind tibiae with two 

 unequal spurs, but the longer one not much wider than the 

 shorter one ; onychium small, but with two long setae, each 

 claw with an acute tooth. Length, 18-24 mm. 



Bah. — Western Australia: Mullewa (Miss J. F. May). 

 Type, I. 4523. 



Of the size and general appearance of callabonnensis, but 

 head very different between eyes, prothorax longer, with 

 different punctures, and without long discal hairs. The 

 smaller specimens are rather more coarsely sculptured than the 

 larger ones. The head between the eyes on most of the specimens 

 appears irregularly biareolate, with the punctures crowded 

 and coarse, on two of them the coarsely-punctured space 

 appears instead to be elliptic in outline. The lamellae of the 

 club are subequal in length and slightly longer than the four 

 basal joints of the tarsi ; they are usually closely folded 

 together, but when separated have a beautiful fan-like 

 appearance. The hairs at the apex of the scutellum are not 

 on its upper-surface, and on several specimens are concealed 

 (or abraded). 



