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I5ß Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



globicoUis, but the elytra are more rounded, prothorax more trans- 

 verse and with a short median carina, antennae thinner, rostrum 

 longer, eyes with finer facets, etc. 



Leptops V a cillans n. sp. 

 Black. Densely clothed with pale brown scales , becoming 

 almost white on under surface and legs. With numerous stout 

 white setae scattered about , but becoming very fine on parts of 

 the under surface and legs. 



Head with dense but more or less concealed punctures. 

 Rostrum stout, with a strong median carina suddenly terminated 

 posteriorly, and with an irregulär row of small punctures down 

 its middle ; sublateral sulci dilated and open posteriorly ; scrobes 

 deep and distinct almost to eyes. Antennae not very thin ; first 

 Joint of funicle about once and one half the length of second. 

 Prothorax at sides about as long as wide, but shorter in middle, 

 sides not very strongly rounded ; widely and rather shallowly im- 

 pressed along middle, with a shining and feebly elevated node 

 in its middle; on each side near its base (where it is deepest) 

 with an oblique Impression connecting it with the side; sides some- 

 what vermiculately impressed ; with small dense punctures, and ; 

 few of larger size. Elytra not much wider (for the genus) than 

 the prothorax, widest at about the basal third ; with rows of 

 large and deep but partially concealed punctures; interstices 

 irregulär, the alternate ones slightly raised ; posterior declivity 

 very abrupt. Length 13 — 16 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland (Entomological Society). 

 The clothing appears to be easily abraded. The interstices 

 at first appear to be supplied with rows of granules or small 

 tubercles, but there are no distinctly conical tubercles , even of 

 small size, and the interstices would best perhaps be regarded 

 as irregularly undulating, rather than as having small tubercles. 

 In the table given in Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. , 1906, p. 314, 

 this species (if its elytra are regarded as nontuberculate) should 

 be placed next to regularis , but it is much wider than that 

 species, rostrum stouter , with a very strong carina, prothorax 

 differently sculptured and elytral interstices narrower and more 

 or less waved. , Regarding its elytra as tuberculate, it should be 

 placed near hypocrita , from which it differs in its wide rostrum, 

 with a strong median carina, more transverse and differently 

 sculptured prothorax, etc. In some respects it resembles robusüis, 

 but the Shoulders are not tuberculate and the suture is not con- 

 spicuously raised posteriorly, although from the side the posterior 

 declivity appears to be almost vertical. 



