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A small narrow species, which differs from parallelus in- 

 being narrower, but elytra at base proportionately wider than 

 base of prothorax, and apical spikes more acute, prothorax 

 more conspicuously corrugated and with sparser clothing. 

 The clothing on the disc of the prothorax is scarcely evenly 

 distributed, but is not vittate; on each elytron there is a 

 narrow glabrous space from the shoulder to about the basaL 

 third or half, the pubescence outside of this space being paler 

 than that towards the suture. The middle femora of one 

 specimen are rather more densely clothed along the middle 

 than on the other, its front tibiae are slightly wider, and the 

 antennae are slightly longer, these differences probably being 

 sexual. 



Uracanthus parallelus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxii., fig. 14. 



cf . Rather dark-castaneous, elytra somewhat paler. 

 Densely clothed with stramineous pubescence; middle femora 

 very densely clothed along middle of under-surface. 



Head with median line narrow and terminated some 

 distance from base, where each is granulate-punctate ; clypeus 

 subtriangular, with irregular punctures, suture deep and 

 rather wide. Antennae thin, not extending to apex of elytra,, 

 fifth to tenth joints feebly produced on one side at apex, 

 eleventh very little longer than tenth. Prothorax 'much 

 longer than wide, base not much wider than apex, sides gently 

 rounded in middle; near base transversely corrugated. Elytra 

 very little wider than prothorax, almost parallel-sided to 

 apex, where each is semi-circularly emarginate and acutely 

 bispinose, each with remnants of three feeble elevations; with 

 dense and minute punctures and some of larger size (but not 

 very large) about basal third. Length, 18 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cooktown. Type (unique), in 

 National Museum (from C. French). 



In general appearance very close to fror/r/atti, but pro- 

 thorax more densely clothed, without visible transverse cor- 

 rugations except about base, elytra even more parallel-sided, 

 the tips conspicuously emarginate, bispinose, and with cloth- 

 ing slightly sparser than elsewhere, the derm just before the 

 tips not depressed, but evenly convex with the adjacent parts. 

 To the naked eye the type appears to be parallel-sided 

 throughout. The clothing on the upper-surface is almost 

 evenly distributed, the only distinctly glabrous parts being a 

 small spot in the middle of the pronotum and a small spot on 

 each shoulder (the latter possibly due to abrasion). From 

 seme directions the tenth joint of antennae appears to be 

 slightly longer than the eleventh. 



