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Leptops pilulifer, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxv., figs. 87 to 89 and 93 and 94. 



Black. Depressed parts, antennae and legs densely 

 clothed with whitish or ashen scales; in addition with stout 

 setae. 



Rostrum with three conspicuous carinae on upper-surface, 

 gradually converging from the front to near the base, but 

 not meeting there, owing to a deep inter-ocular fovea, which 

 separates the intermediate ones (these evenly run out at the 

 base), and in which the median one terminates; sublateral 

 sulci rather narrow, open posteriorly; scrobes wide and deep, 

 at base directed upwards along front margin of eyes. 

 Antennae rather short ; third to seventh joints of f unicle 

 transverse. Prothorax about as long as wide, roughly vermi- 

 culate-tuberculate, with a rather narrow median groove. 

 Scutellum very small. Elytra elongate-ovate, at widest 

 (about the middle) fully twice as wide as prothorax; with 

 rather large and irregular, but not very deep, punctures; 

 suture with two small conjoined tubercles near summit of 

 apical slope, and remnants of others before same; third, fifth, 

 and seventh interstices with numerous tubercles, the others 

 sometimes with tubercles (but smaller ones). Prosternum 

 distinctly armed. Legs moderately long; tibiae feebly denti- 

 culate. Length, 28-30 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Mullewa (Miss J. F. May 

 and W. D. Dodd), Yalgoo (H. W. Brown). Type, I. 5388. 



In the 1906 table of the genus would be associated with 

 gravis, but the elytral tubercles are different; a few of them 

 (on the apical slope) are subcorneal, the others are all rounded 

 (knob- like), and these, together with short connecting inter- 

 vals, give the elytra an appearance as of being supplied with 

 strings of beads — fairly large round ones, alternated with 

 thinner cylindrical ones; the second, fourth, and sixth inter- 

 stices are usually supplied with small tubercles or granules, 

 but on some specimens appear simply as slightly-waved lines. 

 The setae on the appendages are fairly dense, on the elytra 

 they change to 'true scales, fairly thickly scattered about on 

 the elevated parts, and a few amongst the ordinary scales; on 

 the prothorax they are rather narrower. The median groove 

 on the prothorax is more conspicuous on some specimens than 

 on others, but this is due partly to clothing ; along its middle 

 there is usually a carina or remnants of same. The six speci- 

 mens before me appear to be all females; two others (figs. 93 

 and 94) differ in having somewhat wider elytra, with more 

 numerous tubercles, approaching some females of the preced- 

 ing species, but the abdomen is roughly punctured and not 

 highly polished. 



