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incurved at its hind end, in front on the female it is flat, 

 but on the male its front edge is elevated to form a partial 

 protection to the muzzle; both it and the process of the 

 mesost«rnum have rather dense and sharply defined punctures. 



EUDITROPIDUS, n.g. 



Eyes widely separated. Antennae short; club six- 

 jointed, its joints not very lax. Scutellar lobe notched. 

 Intercoxal process of prosternum transverse, its hind end 

 gently incurved to middle. Other characters as in Ditrojpidus. 



This genus practically differs from Ditropidus only by 

 the club having an additional joint, and as that has been 

 considered a generic feature by both Baly and Chapuis, it 

 appeared to be undesirable to refer the four species, agreeing 

 in having the extra joint, to that genus. Type of genus, 

 variahilis. 



EUDITROPIDUS VARIABILIS, U. Sp. 



(S • Black and reddish-flavous. Head, under-surface, 

 and legs with sparse, whitish pubescence. 



Head wide, median line rather wide and shallow; with 

 dense and small punctures. Proth or ax about thrice as wide 

 as the median length, sides strongly rounded; punctures 

 minute and not very dense. Scutdlum small, subovate, 

 slightly concave. Elytra about as long as the basal width, 

 sides rather strongly narrowed posteriorly; with rows of 

 fairly large punctures, on each. side set in three deep striae; 

 interstices with minute punctures. Legs stout, front ones 

 longer than hind ones. Length (o , 9 )> 3*75-4-25 mm. 



9 . Differs in having the head smaller, eyes slightly 

 more apart, elytra less narrowed posteriorly, and with smaller 

 punctures, abdomen larger, more convex, with a large, round, 

 deep, apical fovea, and legs thinner, with the front ones no 

 longer than the hind ones. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Tweed River, on Ficus sp. 

 (W. W. Froggatt). Type, I. 10932. 



No two of the six specimens before me are exactly alike 

 in colour. The type male is flavous, with the joints of the 

 club and the elytra blsick, the latter, however, with a narrow 

 basal strip (touching neither suture nor sides) flavous, a spot 

 at the apex of each of the front and hind femora, and parts 

 of the upper -surf ace of the tibiae are infuscated; a second 

 male is close to it, but has the pale basal portion of the elytra 

 about twice as long. The four females have the head, except 

 the labrum and ocular canthi (on one specimen including the 

 canthi), under-surface (except some of the side parts), and 

 legs (except tarsi) black, the prothorax and elytra with very 



