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stouter than the hind ones, hind femora infnscated, median 

 line of metasternum not dilated, and abdominal fovea larger 

 and much deeper. 



E. Miscellaneous. 



DiTROPIDUS CARINATUS, n. Sp. 



9. Chocolate-brown; scutellum, suture, metasternum, 

 and abdomen black; muzzle, antennae, palpi, prosternum, 

 and legs (hind femora infuscated) flavous. Under-surface 

 and legs scarcely visibly pubescent. 



Head shagreened. Eyes large and almost touching. 

 Prothorax about thrice as wide as the median length, sides 

 strongly rounded ; shagreened and aciculate-punctate through- 

 out. Elytra short ; with rows of large punctures in deep 

 striae; all the interstices acutely carinated throughout. 

 Abdomen shagreened; the two basal segments with rather 

 dense punctures, apical segment with a large, deep fovea. 

 Lecf>i rather short. Length, 2 '25 mm. 



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

 tion). Type (unique), I. 10878. 



Allied to jacohyi, but readily distinguished from that 

 species and all its allies by the shagreened prothorax. 



DiTROPIDUS FLAVOAPICALIS, n. Sp. 



cf . Black; labrum, basal half of antennae (the club 

 infuscated), tips of elytra, pygidium, and legs more or less 

 flavous. Glabrous. 



Head opaque and with minute punctures; median line . 

 very feeble. Eyes rather wide apart. Prothorax fully thrice 

 as wide as the median length, sides strongly rounded, 

 scutellar lobe short; impunctate or almost so. Elytra short; 

 with rows of rather small punctures, becoming larger and set 

 in fairly deep striae on both sides. Intercoxal process of 

 mesosternum rather large and with dense punctures. Front 

 legs slightly longer than liind ones. Length ( c'" , 9)' 

 1-9-2 m.m. 



9 . Differs in having eyes slightly more apart, median 

 line rather wide and shallow, tip of elytra scarcely paler than 

 the adjacent surface, legs and pygidium more obscure, front 

 legs no longer than hind ones, and abdomen larger, more 

 convex, and with a large apical fovea. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Warren River (W. D. Dodd). 

 Type, I. 10919. 



Very close to brunneipennis, of which I was at first 

 inclined to regard it as a variety, but the head, although 

 slightly shagreened, is not at all coppery, and the elytra are 

 distinctly striated only on the sides, elsewhere the punctures 



