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first, none of the others transverse. Prothorax almost twice 

 as wide as the median length ; surface with vermiculate but 

 partially-concealed sculpture, median line distinct. Scutel- 

 1 um triangular and distinct. Elytra briefly ovate, shoulders 

 and sides strongly rounded; with regular rows of very large 

 punctures, appearing much smaller through clothing; fourth, 

 seventh, and tenth interstices rather lightly elevated. Claw- 

 jo/nt long and thin and with free claws. Length, 6-8 mm. 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Daly River (H. Wesselman). 

 Type, I. 5664. 



In general appearance somewhat like the preceding 

 species, but with very different eyes and shorter scape ; the 

 latter is quite unusually short, being scarcely as long as the 

 three basal joints of funicle combined. In general appear- 

 ance it is fairly close to a Queensland species identified by 

 Blackburn, with doubt, as candid us, but differs in having the 

 prothorax and elytra much wider, the latter more abruptly 

 increasing in width near the base, and with scape distinctly 

 shorter. The clothing is not exactly the same on any two 

 of the five specimens in the Museum ; on the type it is mostly 

 ashen-grey with a smoky spot behind each eye, three smoky 

 longitudinal stripes on prothorax, the elytra irregularly 

 spotted and striped with smoky-brown and stramineous, and 

 the femora obscurely ringed ; on the second specimen the 

 darker spots and patches on the upper-surface are very con- 

 fusedly arranged ; on the three others the clothing is mostly 

 of a uniform dingy-stramineous, with three obscure stripes 

 on prothorax and three or four on elytra ; on one of them 

 the clothing on the suture is paler than on the adjacent 

 parts; on the others the somewhat darker scales are not inter- 

 rupted by the suture ; the other stripe on each elytron is on 

 the eighth and ninth interstices (and sometimes on part of the 

 adjacent ones) for the greater portion of their length. To 

 the naked eye (as on the type of the preceding species) some 

 of the elevated parts have a regularly-spotted appearance. 

 The apparent sculpture of the rostrum depends to a certain 

 extent on the density of the scales ; on the type it appears to 

 be grooved and non-carinate along the middle, with the sub- 

 lateral sulci fairly distinct; on another it appears feebly 

 carinated along the middle, and with the sublateral sulci 

 absent. 



Onesorus albatus, n. sp. 



Black, some parts of appendages obscurely diluted with 

 red. Densely but irregularly clothed with snowy-white 

 scales; the under-surface, appendages, and muzzle with rather 

 dense setae. 



