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interrupted. Abdomen with basal segment depressed along 

 middle, second about once and one-third the length of third 

 or fourth, these each with two rows of squamiferous punctures 

 across middle: apical segment with a large shallow fovea. 

 Legs moderately stout: femora rather strongly grooved, the 

 front ones moderately, the others lightly, dentate ; hind tibiae 

 moderately dilated at apex, the front ones lightly, the middle 

 ones not at all. Length, 6J-7 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Blue Mountains (Blackburn's 

 collection): Victoria (H. W. Davey). Type. I. 1315. 



In general appearance close to poUur, but prothoracic 

 carina shorter and less distinct ; elytra more roughly sculp- 

 tured and with narrower interstices, and metasternal episterna 

 with punctures not continuous. Also close to cinerascens, but 

 interstices not carinated towards base, and the space there 

 flattened and irregularly punctate and squamose : this will 

 also distinguish it from pardalis. The white scales are 

 irregularly distributed in small spots on the elytra, causing 

 these to appear speckled ; on the prothorax there are three 

 vague lines of pale scales (individually longer than those on 

 elytra), but most of the scales are sooty and do not rise above 

 their containing punctures. On the under-surface, and on 

 the under-parts of the legs, the scales are mostly grey or 

 of a dingy-white. The elytral punctures are fairly large, and 

 appear to be more or less angular or quadrate, but the cloth- 

 ing is so distributed that few can be seen clearly; the inter- 

 stices are usually wider than the punctures, and, where inten- 

 tionallv abraded, are seen to be covered with short transverse 

 ridges or granules, so that the whole elytra have a peculiarly 

 rough appearance : although their punctures (in comparison 

 with those of many others of the genus) are not particularly 

 large. The (three) specimens under examination appear to 

 be all males. 



Tyrt.eosus basiventris, n. sp. 



(S . Piceous: elytra red, in places deeply and irregu- 

 larly stained with black: antennae and tarsi reddish. Elytra 

 with somewhat ochreous scales congested into feeble spots ; 

 prothorax feebly clothed. Lerfs with thin, whitish scales or 

 setae. 



Head with rather small and sparse punctures; inter- 

 ocular fovea rather large. Eyes separated the width of 

 extreme base of rostrum : a deep angular impression behind 

 ■each. Rostrum moderately long, distinctly notched on each 

 side of base; basal third with coarse crowded punctures, else- 

 where with small but usually clearly-defined ones. Prothorax 

 strongly transverse, sides strongly rounded; with dense, large, 

 round, non-confluent punctures : median carina very feeble, 



