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species in the Museum, and the space outside of each groove 

 is neither a parallelogram nor a triangle, as it is rounded in 

 front, parallel-sided for some distance, and then strongly 

 obliquely narrowed. In general appearance it is strikingly 

 unlike any other in the Museum, and to associate it with 

 them at first appears absurd. The antennae of the female 

 are somewhat like those of figures 3 and 5, of plate 28, in 

 Bonvouloir's monograph, but the male has an additional 

 ramus. 



MlCRORHAGUS VARIEGATUS, n. Sp. 



Black or blackish, in places obscurely diluted with red, 

 tibiae and tarsi reddish, antennae dull reddish-brown. 

 Irregularly clothed. 



Head with crowded punctures, distinct at base, partially 

 concealed elsewhere. Antennae moderately long, second 

 joint very short, third somewhat longer than fourth and fifth 

 combined, fourth to tenth slightly produced on one side at 

 apex, eleventh distinctly longer than tenth. Prothorax 

 strongly transverse, front angles rounded, sides elsewhere 

 parallel, hind angles acutely produced and strongly carinated, 

 front margin carinated, and on each side with a short 

 spur directed towards but not reaching the carina 

 on the hind angle, with a strong median carina about base, 

 but terminated before middle ; with crowded but compara- 

 tively small punctures. Elytra parallel-sided almost to apex; 

 with crowded and moderately large punctures about base, 

 becoming smaller elsewhere, tips with a few granules. 

 Prosternal sulci deep, narrow, about half the width of the 

 propleural parallelograms; these slightly dilated about base 

 and fully twice as long as wide. Length, 3^ mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Illawarra (Blackburn's Col- 

 lection). Type (unique), I. 5724. 



A moderately robust species with beautiful clothing. 

 The obscurely variegated parts of the derm are the basal 

 angles of prothorax, base and suture of elytra, and part of 

 the muzzle. The clothing gives the upper-surface a conspicu- 

 ously variegated appearance, as it is dense and golden in 

 places, and sparser, shorter, and blackish in others ; the 

 golden pubescence is denser on the basal half of the prothorax 

 than elsewhere, and in the middle is directed towards the 

 basal carina, on the rest of the base it is directed backwards ; 

 on the apical half of each elytron the golden pubescence is 

 conspicuous on the suture, apex, and side, the inner portion 

 having more black pubescence than elsewhere; on the under - 

 surface the pubescence is short and rather ashen. Each 

 elytron has a postmedian sutural stria, but except for these 

 striaticn is absent ; the surface as viewed from the side 



