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occasionally immaculate', but there is usually an angular 

 black spot at the base, and often one or two between the 

 eyes. The female is larger (4-4 '5 mm.) than the male 

 (3-3-5 mm.). 



Elaphodes ziczac, n. sp. 



c. Dingy reddish-brown; antennae (club infuscat-ed), 

 elytra (some parts darker), most of under-surface and legs 

 more or less reddish. With rather dense and mostly pale 

 pubescence . 



Head with dense and (where not concealed by clothing) 

 sharply defined punctures. Prothorax strongly and evenly 

 convex, apex scarcely one-fourth less than base; punctures 

 as on head. Elytra with crowded asperate punctures; striae 

 rather lightly impressed, but deeper on sides. Length, 

 3"75-4"5 mm. 



9 . Differs in being more robust, eyes more apart, legs 

 somewhat thinner, and abdomen with a large apical fovea. 



tidh. — Queensland: Bundaberg (Blackburn's collection), 

 Rockhampton (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 10881. 



The scutellum and the extreme base of both prothorax 

 and elytra are black. On the prothorax of one specimen there 

 are eight spots on which the pubescence is darker than on 

 the adjacent surface, but four of them are very indistinct, 

 on two other specimens only four spots are in evidence, and 

 on another not one is distinct ; on the elytra, however, each 

 specimen has a large sutural spot at the basal third and 

 extending from it a zigzag fascia almost to each side; at the 

 apical third, on each elytron, there is a large transverse spot, 

 disconnected with all other markings, the derm at the 

 markings darker than the adjacent surface, and the clothing 

 on them also darker. It is a suboblong species, allied to 

 cervhius, but with coarser punctures and different striae, 

 elytral markings different, notably by the large dark blotch 

 at the basal third, and by the absence of subapical spots ; 

 oblongiis is less rounded, with stronger striae and very 

 different elytral markings; vittiger (unknown to me, but also 

 from Rockhampton) was described as having very different 

 elytral markings. 



El-aphodes simplex, n. sp. 



Rusty-red; extreme base of prothorax and of elytra 

 black, some joints of antennae infuscated. Moderately 

 densely clothed with uniformly pale pubescence. Length, 

 35-4 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (Blackburn's collec- 

 tion and A. M. Lea), Peel Island (Simson's collection), 

 Brisbane (H. W. Cox). Type, I. 10884. 



