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Head with small punctures ; with a feeble medio-basal 

 line ; with a deep fovea extending from eye to eye. Eyes 

 large, facets moderately large. Rostrum rather wide; with 

 an impunctate line along middle, elsewhere with numerous 

 but rather small punctures, concealed on sides of basal half. 

 Scape inserted two-fifths from apex to rostrum, somewhat 

 shorter than funicle. Prothorax moderately transverse; with 

 small punctures, but with some large ones at the sides in 

 front ; basal half (or two-thirds) with small granules, usually 

 depressed and transverse. Elytr^a with outlines almost con- 

 tinuous with those of prothorax, strongly convex; with rows 

 of small punctures, becoming large on sides; with transverse 

 granules or narrow short ridges on three first interstices, and 

 at bases of. some of the others. Femora stout, each with a 

 ridge terminating in a distinct tooth; tibiae compressed, 

 lightly curved. Length, 6-8^ mm. 



9 . Differs in being less convex, rostrum longer, thinner, 

 with smaller and sparser punctures, and without a smooth 

 median line ; scape inserted not quite so close to apex of 

 rostrum, and basal segment of abdomen evenly convex instead 

 of with the intercoxal process shallowly depressed. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 I. 1457. 



A strongly convex, narrowly elliptic species. The rather 

 coarsely faceted eyes, large ocular fovea, and peculiar cephalic 

 clothing are as in semicalvus, with which it would be asso- 

 ciated in my table, but the two species are otherwise very 

 different. The head is bald except for three ochreous spots : 

 one behind each eye and one in middle. On the prothorax 

 there is a stripe (sometimes broken up) on each side, several 

 spots on the flanks, an elongate spot in middle of apex and 

 one on each side of middle. On the elytra the spots are 

 numerous but of irregular size and irregularly distributed. 

 On the under-surface there are fairly numerous spots, in- 

 cluding three on the second abdominal segment. The minute 

 green scales cause the upper-surface to appear opalescent in 

 certain lights. There are some dingy-brown or sooty scales 

 scattered about, but they are very indistinct. On the hind 

 parts of the elytra there are usually feeble rows of whitish 

 scales, but these appear to be very easily abraded, as they 

 are frequently absent, or greatly reduced in numbers. The 

 third interstice at the base is distinctly raised, somewhat 

 curved, and with numerous short transverse ridges. Numerous 

 specimens were obtained at Malanda by beating branches of 

 newly-felled trees. A specimen from Comboyne (New South 

 Wales) appears to belong to the species, but is too much 

 abraded for certainty. 



