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infuscated. On the middle of the pronotum the clothing is 

 usually somewhat rusty, on the pygidium it is usually 

 denser along the middle than elsewhere, giving the 

 appearance as of a median line; on the elytra it occasionally 

 has a vaguely striped appearance. The distance between the 

 eyes is about the width of the clypeus in the male, slightly 

 less in the female. 



Var. A. Two specimens from Queensland (Longreach, 

 A. M. Lea) and one from South Aastralia (Rev. A. P. 

 Burgess) are rather wider and less oblong than usual, but 

 I can find no other distinctions. 



Var. B. Two specimens from Leigh Creek are like the 

 preceding variety, but have the knees blackish. 



Var. C. Three specimens from Western Australia (Cue 

 and Ankertell, H. W. Brown), one smaller (3 -3 '25 mm.) than 

 usual, and have the tarsi and club blackish, one has the 

 knees also blackish, and another the knees, hind femora, and 

 parts of the other femora ; on two of them the prosternum 

 and mesosternum are reddish. 



DiTROPIDUS FLAVIPES, U. Sp. 



(S . Coppery or coppery-bronze; labrum, antennae, palpi, 

 and legs flavous, tips of some of the antennal joints and the 

 claws blackish, or at least infuscated. Rather densely clothed 

 (except on parts of under-surface) with white pubescence. 



Head with dense, partially concealed punctures. Eyes 

 widely separated. Prothoraoc not twice as wide as the median 

 length, somewhat gibbous in front, with a shallow depression 

 near base; with rather dense, partially concealed punctures. 

 Elytra siibquadrate ; with dense, partially concealed punc- 

 tures, lateral striae well defined, the others feeble. Front 

 legs slightly longer than the others. Length ( d' , 9), 2 '25-3 

 mm. 



o . Differs in being m.ore robust, head slightly smaller, 

 eyes more distant, antennae somewhat thinner, front legs 

 no longer than the hind ones, and in the abdomen. 



Hah. — South Australia: Leigh Creek, Oodnadatta 

 (Blackburn's collection), Morgan (Mrs. Kreusler). Type, 

 I. 10953. 



On most of the specimens the clothing is entirely white, 

 but on some of them the pubescence on the middle of 

 the pronotum has a rusty appearance; where it has been 

 abraded from the upper-surface the punctures are seen 

 to be fairly dense and sharply defined; the punctures 

 on the clypeus are usually less concealed than on other 

 parts of the head. From above the hind angles of the 

 prothorax seem rather acute, but from the sides they are 



