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95 



with paler scales, but along middle with long stramineous 

 hairs, becoming almost tufted at tip ; pygidium densely 

 squamose, metasternum with rather long pubescence or short 

 hairs ; legs with stramineous hairs, becoming much longer, 

 blackish, and very conspicuous on the hind tibiae and tarsi. 



Head with densely crowded punctures; clypeus with two 

 •conspicuous sutures, the space between about twice as wide as 

 long, tips semi-upright, somewhat rounded, the notch semi- 

 circular. Prothorax about as long as wide, sides lightly 

 increasing in width from base to middle and then strongly 

 diminishing to apex, which is about half the width t)f base ; 

 with a very feeble median line ; punctures very dense, but 

 more or less concealed, except on the glabrous portion, where 

 they are very shallow, with a confluently-variolose appear- 

 ance. Scutellum highly polished and impunctate. Elytra 

 finely shagreened throughout, with irregular rows of small 

 punctures. Front tibiae bidentate; three basal joints of 

 front tarsi densely clothed on lower surface. Length, 

 D mm. 



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

 I. 5759. 



In general appearance strikingly close to sericea, with 

 which it would be associated in Blackburn's table, but apical 

 half and sides of pronotum densely squamose and the rest 

 glabrous, elytra glabrous and with much smaller punctures, 

 and abdomen with very different clothing (the hairy part of 

 the abdomen is completely free from scales). The ocular 

 canthi have longer and stiffer clothing than usual; there is a 

 feeble ridge along the middle of the pygidium. 



DlPHUCEPHALA TARSALIS, 11. Sp. 



c? . Bright metallic golden -green, antennae (club black) 

 and legs (claws blackish) reddish. Moderately densely 

 ■clothed with rather long, subdepressed, stramineous setae, 

 becoming denser and paler on under-surface and pygidium, 

 but the latter glabrous at apex. 



Head flat and with crowded punctures between eyes : 

 •clypeus with tips elevated and obtusely triangular, the 

 dividing notch very wide. Prothorax lightly transverse, 

 sides lightly incurved between middle (where each is acutely 

 angular) and base, with a rather deep median groove some- 

 what dilated at base, lateral sulci well defined but not 

 traceable to middle, with rather large punctures (more 

 crowded in the depressions than elsewhere), each with a single 

 setiferous granule. Scutettum highly polished and impunc- 

 tate. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax ; with large, 

 ucleep, approximate punctures in irregular rows: fourth and 



