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fawn-coloured and sooty scales, the sooty ones very sparse on 

 under-surface. 



Read with coarse more or less concealed punctures. Eyes 

 widely separated, a narrow normally-concealed depression 

 behind each. Rostrum rather short, wide, and almost 

 straight; with dense and coarse punctures, but on basal third 

 concealed. Protliorax almost as long as wide, sides strongly 

 rounded; with dense, round, deep, non-confluent punctures; 

 median carina scarcely, or not at all, traceable. Elytra 

 parallel-sided to near apex, not much wider than protliorax, 

 subhumeral notches almost absent; with rows of large, deep 

 punctures; interstices in places wider, in places narrower, 

 than punctures, with sparse granules, but surface more or 

 less concealed by clothing. Mesosternal rece'ptacle larger and 

 more elevated than usual. Metasternum with a conspicuous 

 ridge on each side between coxae; episterna each with a con- 

 tinuous row of punctures. Abdomen with basal segment not 

 as long as second and third combined, depressed in middle, 

 apex lightly incurved to middle; third and fourth each with 

 two rows of squamiferous punctures. Legs stout; femora 

 strongly dentate; hind tibiae lightly dilated to apex. Length,. 

 4-4|^ mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum slightly thinner, 

 shining, and with concealed punctures only at extreme base, 

 the punctures elsewhere small but clearly defined; antennae 

 inserted just perceptibly nearer base than apex of rostrum 

 (instead of in the exact middle), and basal segment of 

 abdomen moderately convex. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd and 

 A. M. Lea); Little Mulgrave River (H. Hacker). Type, 

 I. 1312. 



The mesosternal receptacle is unusually stout, and the- 

 rostrum unusually short for the genus. It is a subcylindrical 

 species, with clothing so dense as to greatly obscure the derm 

 of the elytra. The sooty scales are distributed in small patches 

 on the upper-surface, causing this, to the naked eye, to appear 

 speckled; the interstices each have a row of stout scales, but 

 as these are similar in colour to the surrounding ones they 

 are but little evident; each elytral puncture is also supplied 

 with a scale. The junction of the fourth and fifth interstices 

 on the posterior declivity is marked by a small spot, con- 

 spicuous to the naked eye, of pale scales, encircled by dark 

 ones, and is alike on all six specimens under examination. 

 The punctures of the under-surface are larger and denser 

 than usual. 



