350 



very small ; there are altogether from twenty to twenty-five 

 on each elytron. 



Leptops ferox, n. sp. 



Black, antennae and tips of spines diluted with red. 

 Rather sparsely clothed. 



Head with inter-ocular fovea very shallow. Rostrum 

 moderately long, upper-surface with five conspicuous carinae ; 

 scrobes deep in front, but vanishing before the middle. 

 Antennae moderately long and thin. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, sides increasing in width from base to near apex 

 and then suddenly narrowed to apex, with a wide median 

 excavation bounded by irregular longitudinal elevations, 

 between this and sides irregularly vermiculate. Elytra 

 elongate-elliptic, with large punctures and large acute tubercles- 

 or spines; apex bimucronate. Ley* long; tibiae scarcely 

 visibly denticulate; claw- joint unusually long. Length, 

 12 mm. 



Hah. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's Collection).. 

 Type (unique), I. 5533. 



In the 1906 table of the genus would be associated with 

 gladiator . and laticollis, from which it differs (besides in many 

 other particulars) in the greater number of its tubercles. I 

 know of no species closely resembling it in general appear- 

 ance. The two large spines terminating the subsutural row 

 almost meet at their bases, but nevertheless could hardly be 

 regarded as "on" the suture; their position is practically that 

 of the end ones on the third interstice, but that interstice, 

 owing to the large size of the tubercles and the punctures is 

 not easily made out. On the type, scales are dense only on 

 the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi, ( 21) elsewhere they are 

 decidedly scarce ; on the legs, muzzle, and under-surface 

 there are numerous pale setae : the inequalities of the elytra 

 were filled with a reddish kind of greasy meal, but on soaking 

 the specimen for some time in chloroform most of this disap- 

 peared. The five rcstral carinae are of almost exactly the 

 same length and elevation, and parallel almost throughout, 

 the median one is joined to the apical plate, the two on 

 each side are joined together in front, but not behind; in 

 consequence the sublateral sulcus, which they margin, is very 

 narrow and open posteriorly. The elytral punctures are 

 large, but the rows are considerably affected by the tubercles: 

 in turn, it is difficult to define the interstices the tubercles 

 should be regarded as being on ; those on each elytron are in 



(2D Their presence there would appear to indicate that the 

 other pnrts of the body and appendages have not been considerably 

 abraded. 



