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9 . Differs from the male much as in the two preceding 

 species. 



Hah. — Queensland: Kuranda (G. E. Bryant, H. H. D. 

 Griffith from F. P. Dodd) ; Cairns (E. Allen, A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 1303. 



A rather pretty species, allied to the two preceding ones,. 

 but without latero-apical spots of pale scales on prothorax. 

 It is also allied to microthorax, but is narrower, prothorax 

 considerably larger in proportion, and clothing very different. 

 There are usually at least four distinct dark spots on the 

 elytra (or six counting the shoulders), and these spots are 

 rendered more distinct by their entire absence of clothing ; 

 the suture is frequently dark ; the prothorax is usually darker 

 than the elytra, but its depth of colour is uniform on the 

 individual ; the base and apex of femora and of abdomen are 

 usually darker than the adjacent parts. On some specimens 

 the head appears to have traces of a feeble medio-frontal 

 carina. 



Tyrt.;eosus subopacus, n. sp. 



(S . Of a dingy piceous-brown or black, somewhat 

 diluted with red in places, antennge and tarsi paler. Pro- 

 thorax with fairly stout stramineous setge, on each side in 

 front a feeble spot of stouter and paler scales. Elytra with 

 fairly numerous fawn-coloured scales scattered about, and 

 condensed into numerous small spots, with a few sooty scales 

 in parts. Under-surface with irregularly distributed scales, 

 varying from white to sooty. Legs rather densely clothed, 

 mostly with whitish setse. 



Head with coarse dense punctures in front ; with or with- 

 out a feeble median carina ; a distinct depression behind each 

 eye; these moderately close together in front. Kostrum 

 moderately long ; basal half with dense coarse punctures, 

 somewhat linear in arrangement, apical half with smaller, but 

 more clearly defined, ones. Club rather elongate. ProtJiorax 

 with sides strongly and evenly rounded on basal three- 

 fourths, but apex suddenly narrowed ; with large round 

 punctures, nowhere confluent; with a strongly raised, narrow, 

 median carina. Elytra elongate-cordate, not much, but 

 suddenly, wider than prothorax ; with rows of large deep 

 punctures in shallow striae, becoming smaller posteriorly ; third 

 and fifth interstices distinctly, the second and seventh less 

 noticeably raised above their fellows, and with transverse 

 squamiferous granules. Metas.ternum with a strong oblique 

 ridge on each side between coxae, with a very feeble tubercle 

 between each ridge and medio-basal impression; episterna 

 each with a continuous row of strong punctures. Ahdomen 

 with basal segment flat and polished in middle, and suddenly 



