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ScOLECOBROTUS UNIFORMIS, 11. Sp. 



(5 . Dark piceous-brown, almost black. Densely clothed 

 with short, depressed, ashen pubescence. 



Head with median line narrow and deep, base finely 

 granulate. Antennae net extending to apex of elytra, fifth 

 to twelfth joints and part of fourth multi-granulate and 

 somewhat serrate on lower-surface, twelfth about three- 

 fourths the length of eleventh. Prothorax slightly longer 

 than wide, sides bisinuate and nodose in middle, base con- 

 siderably wider than apex, densely but irregularly trans- 

 versely corrugated, and subnodose on each side of middle. 

 Elytra about one-fourth wider than prothorax, sides feebly 

 decreasing in width to apex, where each is widely emarginate 

 and acutely bispinose ; with very minute punctures and 

 remnants of feeble elevations. Length ( c> , 9)> 36-44 mm. 



9 • Differs in being rather more robust and with shorter 

 antennae, on which the granules and serrations are less 

 distinct. 



Hah. — South Australia: Ouldea (R. T. Maurice). Type. 

 I. 5688. 



A large, dark, uniforms-coloured and clothed species, 

 of which five specimens were taken by the late Mr. Maurice. 

 Although tabulated with valid ux, it is not close to that species, 

 being much larger, darker, and with different clothing, first 

 and twelfth joints of antennae longer, and the twelfth con- 

 spicuously separated from the eleventh. The serrations of 

 the antennae are due to granules and not to numerous 

 irregular teeth, as on westwoodi and variegatus. The hind 

 femora of the male are not clothed with special pubescence. 



ScOLECOBROTUS BTMACULATUS, n. sp. 



Piceous-brown, in places almost black. Densely clotliecl 

 with short ashen pubescence, on each elytron condensed about 

 middle to form a large pale spot. 



Head, with a narrow median line : base finely granulate. 

 Antennae thin, two apical joints passing elytra, joints after 

 the third obtusely granulate, with lower edges very feebly 

 serrated, twelfth about three-fourths the length of eleventh. 

 Prothorax slightly longer than wide, sides rather strongly 

 dilated in middle, strongly but irregularly transversely cor- 

 rugated throughout, but subnodose on each side of middle. 

 Elytra about one-fourth wider than prothorax, sides 

 moderately decreasing in width to about middle, and then 

 very feebly to apex, where each is rather widely emarginate 

 and strongly bispinose; each with two feeble elevations, dis- 

 appearing about base and towards the apex ; between median 



