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Hab. — North-western Australia (Macleay MTiseum), 

 Derby, W. D. Dodd. Type, I. 10920. 



About the size of whitei and concolor, but readily 

 distinguished from all the metallic hairy species by the 

 unusually thick red legs of the male, all the legs are stout, 

 the front ones especially, although they are but little longer 

 than the hind ones; on the female the legs are of normal 

 size, her tibiae and tarsi being only about half the width of 

 those parts in the male : the front tibiae of the male from 

 some directions appear to have a slight tooth where the 

 apical diminution begins; in the female the distance between 

 the eyes is equal to the width of the clypeus, in the male 

 it is slightly less. On each of the three 'specimens before me 

 the shoulders are thickened and somewhat purplish, and the 

 disc of the pronotum is partly glabrous (but this may be 

 due to abrasion). 



DiTROPIDUS CRIBRIPENNIS, n. sp. 



(S . Bronze or copper-bronze ; labrum, palpi, basal half 

 of antennae, and parts of legs more or less reddish. Head, 

 prothorax, under-surface, and legs moderately clothed with 

 white pubescence. 



Head with crowded asperate punctures; median line 

 fairly distinct. Eyes moderately separated. Prothorax about 

 twice as wide as the median length, front angles widely 

 rounded off; punctures dense and fairly large, becoming 

 crowded on sides. Elytra slightly longer than wide, slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly; with rows of large deep punctures, 

 becoming smaller but set in deep striae at the sides and 

 posteriorly; interstices finely wrinkled and punctate, usually 

 narrower than seriate punctures. Legs moderately long, 

 front ones slightly longer and thicker than hind ones. 

 Length (d, 9), 2-25-3 mm. 



9 • Differs in being more robust, head smaller, antennae 

 thinner, legs thinner, the front ones no longer than the hind 

 ones, and in the abdomen. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Geraldton (W. D. Dodd 

 and A. M. Lea), Perth (Blackburn's collection), Swan River, 

 Rottnest Island (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 10921. 



An oblong species with coarser elytral punctures than 

 on any species (known to me) with pubescent prothorax; the 

 size and outlines are much as in yymnopterua, but on that 

 species the seriate elytral punctures are not even as large as 

 those on the prothorax of this species; the eyes of the male 

 of the present species are also closer together, the distance 

 between them being slightly more than the length of the basal 



