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thorax (6 x 6 '5 mm.) flatter, more strongly granulate ; three 

 strong lateral tubercles on each side, two of these as iu male, 

 the third smaller and placed a little in front of the one where 

 the sides begin to narrow in front. (There are faint indications 

 of this tubercle in the male.) Elytra more robust, greatly wider 

 than prothorax (16 x 9-5 mm.), more evenly and strongly 

 sculptured ; the triangular notch at apex much deeper, the pro- 

 jections on each side of it more prominent ; second ventral seg- 

 ment not hollowed between coxpe ; apical segment with edge a 

 little upturned round apex. Legs shorter ; anterior tibiae less 

 arcuate on external edge, and without the broad inward projec- 

 tion and ante-apical notch of lower side. 



Length, 25; breadth, 9-5 mm. 



When in Sydney I was able, through the kindness of Mr. 

 Masters, to compare M. tibialis with a specimen (evidently a 

 female) of M. gagates, Pasc, received by him from Mr. Pascoe. 

 I would note the following differences : — M. tibialis has the 

 rostrum more deeply excavate, with longer and more prominent 

 external ridges , the front with a strong prominence on each side 

 behind the external ridges of the rostrum (in M. gagates these 

 prominences are obsolete) ; the prothorax flatter, with the large 

 tubercles more strongly developed, excepting the two on the base, 

 which in M. gagates equal those near the basal angles ; the 

 granules more prominent, more numerous, and more clearly 

 defined ; the elytra flatter, and somewhat differently sculptured, 

 the granules being in rows, separated l)y wavy interrupted striai. 

 (In M. gagates the sculpture is rougher and more confused, with 

 the transverse impressions deeper. 



This species seems to have au extensi^'e range, the male is 

 labelled "Eraser Range, October," the female " ISIay-June" 

 (westward to Everard Range). 



Aeantholophus granulatus, n. «p. 

 Of elongate elliptical form ; elytra much wider than prothorax; 

 dorsal surface of prothorax flat, tuberculate, with lateral margins 

 dentate ; elytra striate, the interstices closely granulate. Black, 

 with cinereous scales ; the scales whiter, and sparsely placed on 

 sides of rostrum, prothorax, and elytra, very thinly scattered 

 among the cavities on disc of prothorax, thicker on middle of 

 posterior part, set in thick patches on the dorsal surface and 

 apical declivity of elytra, gi^'ing the elytra a mottled ashen 

 appearance. 



Rostrum short, about as wide as head, very deeply excavate ; 

 external ridges rugulose, setigerous, very much elevated, as high 

 behind as in front, cut oblicpiely to apex of scrobe iu front, 

 separated from frontal crest b}- au oblique gap ; a transverse im- 



