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Head with an obtuse elevation close to each eye. Eyes 

 elongate-ovate. Rostrum short and stout; median carina 

 distinct in middle, commencing at a narrow inter-ocular fovea, 

 and not joined to apical plate ; sublateral sulci narrow and 

 oblique, open in front but closed posteriorly. Antennae 

 stout; scape about the length of four following joints; two 

 basal joints of funicle moderately long and subequal, the four 

 apical ones transverse. Prothorax strongly transverse; sur- 

 face vermiculate and coarsely punctate; with a distinct 

 median line. Scutellum absent. Elytra short, much wider 

 ;than prothorax, with rows of very large punctures, appearing 

 much smaller through clothing, especially posteriorly; fourth, 

 seventh, and tenth interstices elevated, the tenth with a 

 conspicuous, subcorneal, humeral tubercle. Claw* distinctly 

 but not widely separated from about their middle. Length, 

 8-9 mm. 



Flab. — Queensland: Stewart River (W. D. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 5650. 



In general appearance somewhat like Lejitops frontalis, 

 but very different between the eyes and with the shoulders 

 tuberculate. The claws are close together on their basal half, 

 but could scarcely be considered to be soldered together as in 

 Zyinaus. The colour of the derm is variable, and although 

 on the two typical specimens is more or less reddish, on the 

 "variety noted below it is almost entirely black. The scales 

 are mostly whitish, often with a silvery lustre, but change in 

 places to a rather light-brown or slaty-grey, verging to 

 ochreous : on each elytron, however, there is a conspicuous 

 patch of black scales, commencing suddenly at about one- 

 fourth from base and extending about half-way to the apex 

 on the eighth and ninth interstices. The sculpture of the 

 rostrum is distinct, although the clothing is dense; between 

 each median groove and sublateral sulcus there is an elevation 

 that commences rather widely at the subtubereular elevation 

 and runs out to a sharp point, slightly in advance of the 

 median carina; as a result, the rostrum across the middle has 

 five conspicuously-elevated lines, at the extreme base two 

 obtuse ones, and in front two obtuse ones. The elevated 

 interstices on the elytra appear to be slightly undulating in 

 height, but this is principally due to the alteration in colour 

 of their clothing. 



Another specimen from the Stewart River differs in being 

 larger (12 mm.), clothing much dingier, elytra without the 

 conspicuous black patches, setae rather longer and more 

 numerous, and inter-ocular carina larger and wider, without 

 an obtuse tubercle between it and each eye. 



