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are well detined and 



(while in nasutus the elytiul punctures 

 isolated), and in being pseudt)-striate. 



Hurchison District. 

 V. rfer»r7.ts, sp. nov. Modice elongatus; minus con voxus; postioo 

 vix dilatatus : sat nitidus; obscure ferruginous, antennis 

 palpis(|ue dilutioribus ; sparsim fulvo-pubescens; capite con- 

 lertim rugulose, protliorace fortiter subcrebre, elytris 

 squainose sat crebre nee subtiliter, pygidio fere ut prothorax, 

 punctulatis ; clypeo antioe late leviter emarginato, ante 

 oculos minus dilatato, sutura clypeali subtili leviter arcuata; 

 prothoraoe quam longiori (et postice quam antice) plus quani 

 diinidio latiori, lateribus modice arcuatis, basi vix bisinuata, 

 lUT-gulis anticis minus prominulis sat acutis, posticis rotund- 

 atis ; elytris vix obsolete substriatis (stria subsuturali leviter 

 impressa),^ vix transversim rugatis ; tibiis anticis extus 

 lortiter minus acute 3-dentatis ; labro clypeum leviter minus 

 ate superanti; antennis 8-articulatis ; coxis posticis ad 

 iatera quam metasternum sat brevioribus : unguiculis ap- 

 pendiculatis. Long., 5J 1. ; lat, 2 ,ij 1. 

 a ^'^® '^^"^Ptui'e of the elytra being deep and somewhat close has 

 ^^ lougli appearance, but the roughness is not conspicuously trans- 

 erse. riiis species belongs to the same group (V.) as the pre- 

 oeamg two. In the tabulation (cited above) it falls beside 

 J^reews, Black!)., and Fraserensis, Blackb., is closely related, 

 nermg from the former by its much larger size, the short basal 

 point ot Its hmd tarsi, &c., from the latter inter alia by the corn- 

 each tr"'"^®'^""^ ''"''^ '"""^IPs of its prothorax. The relation to 

 b'lit +1 ''' '^'^ clypeus and labrum are almost as in Fraserensis, 

 cc! .,7 P-'^rt of the labrum visible as the middle lobe of the 

 wuobed outline" of the head is evidently narrower in proportion 

 to the lateral lobes. 



Murchison District. 



'raserensis, sp. uov. Minus elongatus, sat convexus ; 

 '^UMM ^®^^*®'^' dilatatus; subnitidus ; ferrugineus ; pilis 

 subtihbus adpressis et nonnullis erectis sparsim vestitus ; 

 c ypeo confertim rugulose, capite postice quam clypeus magis 

 crasse paullo minus crebre, protliorace subsparsim, elytris 

 squamose sat crebre sat fortiter, pygidio minus fortiter 

 minus crebre, punctulatis ; clypeo antice vix emarginato late 



«ie truncate ante oculos extrorsum haud producto ; pro- 



lonice quam lougiori circiter dimidio (postice quam antice 

 ^i-x dimidio) latiori, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi bisinuata 



IX lobata, angulis anticis acutis modice productis, posticis fere 

 ^ . ^'ix retrorsum productis; elytris haud striatis vixtrans- 



ersim rugulosis ; tibiis anticis extus fortiter acute 3-dent- 



