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Femora with minute teeth, scarcely traceable through 

 clothing. Length, 4 J mm. 



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

 I. 1455. 



With a conspicuous patch of white scales on the side of 

 each elytron as in Scleropoides triangtiUferus and Hyperio- 

 soma falcatum, the patch halfway between apex of prothorax 

 and apex of elytra. As the basal segment of its abdomen is 

 quite flat in the middle, and the rostrum is densely clothed 

 almost to its tip, the type is almost certainly a male. 



EXITHIUS OBSCURUS, n. sp. 



<S . Black; antennae reddish. Densely clothed with 

 ferruginous scales, feebly variegated with somewhat paler and 

 sooty ones. Prothorax with six very feeble fascicles, elytra 

 with numerous more distinct ones. 



Head rather strongly convex, forehead feebly trisinuate; 

 with dense punctures, partially concealed between eyes. 

 Rostrum rather long, sides almost parallel, lightly notched 

 on each side of base; with dense punctures, coarse and 

 partially concealed on basal half, smaller and clearly defined 

 in front. Scape inserted about three-sevenths from apex of 

 rostrum. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides strong^ly 

 rounded, apex half the width of middle ; with dense partially- 

 concealed punctures; with a very feeble median carina or 

 impunctate line. Elytra rather robust, sides almost parallel 

 to beyond the middle, base moderately trisinuate ; with rows^ 

 of large partially-concealed punctures; second to seventh 

 interstices with feeble tubercular swellings, supporting rather 

 feeble fascicles. Mesosternal receptacle moderately, but not 

 suddenly, elevated in front. Metasternal episterna of 

 moderate width. Femora stout, strongly dentate : tibiae- 

 bisinuate on lower-surface. Length, 5f-6 mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum smoother, with sparser 

 and smaller punctures and less of the base clothed ; the basal 

 segment of abdomen also is gently convex instead of flat in 

 middle. 



Hah. — Victorian Alps (Blackburn's collection); Tas- 

 mania: Huon River, in tussocks (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 1456. 



At first glance somewhat resembling muscidus, but with- 

 out the conspicuously produced shoulders of that species; 

 simulator has more parallel-sided elytra and mesosternal 

 receptacle suddenly elevated. 



EXITHIUS OBLIQUUS, n. sp. 

 Blackish-brown ; legs, rostrum, and antennae reddish. 

 Densely clothed with large, soft, fawn-coloured scales, feebly 



