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twice the width of prothorax; with geminate rows of large 

 punctures, appearing much smaller through clothing; third, 

 fifth, and seventh insterstices gently elevated, the third at 

 base dilated and produced on to base of prothorax. Legs 

 rather long; tibiae lightly denticulate. Length, 11-14. mm. 



llali. — North-western Australia: Baudin Island (British 

 Museum and Blackburn's Collection, from J. J. Walker), 

 De Freycinet and Condillac Islands (British Museum). Type, 

 I. 5652. 



A non-tuberculate species that in the 1906 table of the 

 genus would be associated with regular}*, from which it differs 

 in the comparatively much wider and very differently clothed 

 and punctured elytra, etc. In some respects it seemed to 

 agree with the description of Onesorus obesus, but it differs 

 very considerably from a specimen of that species sent by Mr. 

 Arrow for examination. Structurally it is close to hirsutus, 

 but the clothing is very different. The scales are small and 

 round, and on the head, prothorax, under-surface, and legs 

 are white (on some specimens snowy-white, but with a faint 

 silvery gloss) ; the pronotum appears to have three vague 

 dark stripes, but this is due to the scales there being sparser- 

 than elsewhere ; on the elytra the clothing is stramineous, the 

 setae are dense on the appendages, moderately dense on the 

 head and prothorax, and again dense on the elytra, where 

 they are rather stouter than elsewhere, but do not project 

 upwards, being curved over with their tips almost touching 

 the scales, or actually concealed by them. The second joint 

 of the funicle, even from the side, is seen to be distinctly 

 longer than the first. The clothing of the prothorax partially 

 conceals the sculpture, so that it appears through the scales 

 to be supplied with numerous small granules ; but on abrasion 

 very few of these are seen to be isolated ; on abrasion also a 

 small medio-frontal depression (scarcely traceable before) 

 becomes distinct. The female is larger and wider than the 

 male, with somewhat shorter legs. 



Leptops variegatus, n. sp. 



Black. Very densely clothed with soft round scales and 

 with numerous setae. 



Bostrum unusually short, with a narrow median groove; 

 scrobes rather narrow and deep, posteriorly directed below 

 eyes. Scape short and stout, dilated to apex; first joint of 

 funicle distinctly longer than second, none of the others 

 transverse. Prothorax subcylindrical, sides feebly rounded, 

 surface vermiculate-rugose. Elytra suddenly much wider 

 than prothorax, almost parallel-sided to near apex ; with 

 regular rows of partially-concealed punctures ; interstices 



