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myself as to whether one specimen has a minute scutellum or 

 not, but the other is certainly without one. Both specimens 

 appear to be feminine. 



POEOPTERUS CONVEXUS, n. Sp. 



Black ; antennae of a dingy-red. Sparsely clothed with 

 thin scales varying from muddy-brown to sooty; but legs,, 

 especially the tibiae, rather densely clothed. 



Head with fairly large but sparse and shallow punctures 

 in front, towards base with numerous small punctures and 

 finely shagreened. Ocular fovea rather large and transverse. 

 Eyes coarsely faceted. Rostrum moderately long, sides slightly 

 swollen between base and antennae, and feebly dilated in front 

 of same to apex ; with dense, clearly-defined punctures, coarser 

 behind than in front of antennae, but with an impunctate space 

 along middle between same. Antennae inserted about two- 

 fifths from apex of rostrum; scape rather short; first joint of 

 funicle stouter but scarcely, if at all, longer than second. Fro- 

 thorax slightly longer than wide, sides rounded in middle, apex 

 feebly produced and rounded ; subapical constriction deep, 

 regular and continuous; with four very obtuse tubercles across 

 middle ; carina represented only by a feeble scutellar lobe ; 

 sides with very few punctures, but with a deep groove at base. 

 Scutellum minute. Elytra narrow, strongly convex, much 

 deeper than wide; non-tuberculate ; sides obscurely striated 

 and with comparatively small and distant punctures, elsewhere 

 with very small punctures, but in places tr.ansversely impressed. 

 Mesosternal rece'ptacle with basal portion rather large and con- 

 vex, emargination semicircular. Ahdo^nen with first segment 

 as long as three following combined, and somewhat longer than 

 fifth, its suture with second distinct at sides, but deeper and 

 wider across middle, second somewhat shorter than third and 

 fourth combined. Legs long and thin ; hind femora passing 

 apex of elytra; third tarsal joint moderately wide and deeply 

 bilobed. Length, 8-| mm. 



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

 1. 1299, in South Australian Museum. 



A narrow, deep species, with non-tuberculate elytra ; its 

 coarsely-faceted eyes are rather aberrant for the genus. Of 

 the described species it is perhaps nearest to longipes, but that 

 species has wider and dijfferently sculptured elytra and finely 

 faceted eyes. The elytra when viewed from the side appear to 

 be strongly rounded from the base to the basal fourth, and 

 then to sweep round evenly to the apex, so that it is difficult 

 to decide as to where the posterior declivity commences. The 

 'type is probably a male. 



