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are often entirely pale, or with the knees slightly infuscated,. 

 the hind legs often entirely dark, the middle femora are 

 sometimes flavous, except for the knees, but usually only the 

 basal half of their femora is pale; the males usually have 

 more of the legs pale than the females. 



DlTROPIDUS PALLIPES, U. ,sp. 



d. Black; head, basal half of antennae (the club- 

 infuscated), palpi, front angles and sides of prothorax, 

 prosternum, mesosternum, and legs bright flavous. Glabrous. 



Head with small punctures, median line terminating in 

 a small fovea between the eyes. Eyes separated slightly more 

 than the length of basal joint of antennae. Antennae rather 

 longer than usual, the club almost continuous in width with 

 basal portion. Prothorax about thrice as wide as long, sides 

 (for the genus) not much narrowed to apex ; punctures rather 

 sparse and small, but sharply defined. Eli/tra suboblong ; 

 strongly punctate-striate throughout. Metasternum with a 

 wide, shallow, median depression. Abdomen with a large but 

 shallow apical fovea. Front legs stouter and slightly longer 

 than hind ones. Length, 2 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria: 'Dividing Range (Blackburn's collec- 

 tion). Type, I. 10917. 



With strongly striated elytra somewhat as in the jacohyi 

 group, but prothorax with front angles and sides flavous. It 

 is flatter and more parallel-sided than lateroapicalis and 

 flavolaferalis, the prothorax is shorter and much less narrowed 

 to the apex, and the elytral striae are less divergent from the 

 suture; the antennae, however, are much as on those species. 

 The flavous parts of the prothorax narrowly occupy each side,, 

 and are continued across about one-fourth of the apex. The 

 scutellar lobe is shorter than usual, and its notch is very 

 minute; the discal striae of the elytra are almost all parallel 

 with the suture, even the short subsutural one being much 

 less oblique than is usual in the genus. The colours of the 

 prothorax and sterna, the wide depression on the metasternum, 

 the front legs, antennae, and the comparatively small abdomen 

 sloping to both base and apex of the type, are essentially 

 masculine, but it has a large fovea at the apex of the 

 abdomen, which, although decidedly shallower than in 

 females, is quite distinct. 



A second specimen (from Nelson, in the Blackburn 

 collection) may be a female of the species, it has similar 

 elytral striae, but has the head (except labrum), prothorax 

 (this with more distinct punctures, especially on the sides), 

 and sterna black, antennae shorter, front legs no lousier or 



