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each armed with a strong, recurved, acute tooth; hind tibiae 

 transverely multicarinate internally, front ones variable. 

 Length, 3f-4 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Syduey (Old Collection), Blue 

 Mountains, and R/ydalmere (Dr. E. W. Ferguson) ; Mitta- 

 gong, 2,000-2,500 feet (British Museum, from J. J. Walker). 

 Type, I. 5581. 



I cannot satisfy myself that the five specimens before me 

 belong to more than one species ; two of them have the elytra 

 about the apical slope subtuberculate and decidedly rougher 

 than on the others, and their front tibiae are apparently 

 strikingly different. On the Sydney and Mittagong speci- 

 mens the front tibiae have the apical three-fourths arched and 

 granulate on the lower-surface, with the granulated portion 

 suddenly terminating in a conspicuous tooth near the base 

 (somewhat as on ave.nace.us), each of the front femora also 

 has a notch in which the tooth can rest ; on the other speci- 

 mens the tibiae are also granulate, but at the position of the 

 strong tooth there is a gentle swelling only, much as on many 

 other species of the genus. The carinae of the hind tibiae 

 are invisible from most directions. In the 1914 table of the 

 genus, regarding the elytra as tuberculate, the species would 

 he readily distinguished from all those referred to F, and 

 also regarding them as non-tuberculate from all those referred 

 to K, by the middle coxae, the remarkable teeth on these vary 

 somewhat in size, but are conspicuous on all the specimens; 

 they curve obliquely inwards over the intercoxal process; the 

 armature of the middle coxae of dentipes, transversus, and 

 scaber is very different. The prothorax on abrasion is seen 

 to have the disc entirely without granules and to be covered 

 with small dense punctures, mixed with a few of larger size; 

 hut the sides appear to have a few feeble elevations. The 

 alternate interstices of elytra are not conspicuously elevated 

 above their fellows, except that the third becomes almost 

 tuberculate at base. 



Mandalotus raui, n. sp. 



cT . Black, some parts obscurely reddish ; funic] e and 

 tarsi bright castaneous. Densely clothed with muddy-brown 

 scales, interspersed with stout setae. 



Rostrum moderately long, upper-surface with derm 

 entirely concealed by clothing. Scape rather long : funicle 

 thin, first joint thicker and slightly longer than second. 

 Prothorax almost as long as wide, sides strongly and evenly 

 rounded, median line feebly impressed ; with numerous round 

 granules, slightly traceable through clothing, but conspicuous 

 on abrasion. Elytra subarcuate at base, which is wider than 



