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at the basal third of its elytra, but at the sides the fascia is 

 directed forwards, and almost extends to the base. Two other 

 males have but feeble remnants of the dark, subquadrate, pro- 

 thoracic patch. 



Tychreus sellatus, Pasc. 



On the typical form of this species the clothing is mostly of 

 a dingy-whitish colour, with a large ovate dark spot, common 

 to prothorax and elytra. 



Var. A. On Mount Tambourine a form occurs whose scales 

 are mostly pale ochreous-brown, and without a distinct ovate 

 patch on the upper-snrface, but generally there is a small dark 

 spot of scales on the second interstice at the basal. third. 



Tychreus lanifer, n. sp. 



d" . Blackish, in places obscurely diluted with red, scape 

 and funicle of a rather dingy-red. Densely clothed with soft, 

 white, W'Oolly-looking scales, in places compacted into depressed 

 fascicles ; a transverse patch near base of elytra, another at 

 summit of posterior declivity, and some feeble spots on sides of 

 a sooty-brown ; femora, and sometimes the tibiae, with obscure 

 rings of sooty-brown. Under-surface moderately densely 

 clothed . 



Eyes large and finely faceted. Rostrum moderately stout ^ 

 sides lightly incurved to middle ; with coarse punctures, con- 

 cealed except on apical third. Scape as long as funicle. in- 

 serted one-third from apex of rostrum. Prothorax lightly 

 transverse, sides strongly rounded, base strongly bisinuate, disc 

 uneven: with dense, normally-concealed punctures. Elytra 

 wider than prothorax, base strongly trisinuate, parallel-sided 

 to beyond the middle ; with series of large, more or less con- 

 cealed, punctures ; interstices with numerous feeble swellings, 

 supporting feeble fascicles. Mesosttrnal receptacle U-shaped, 

 but base fairly large. Femora, stout, strongly dentate. Length, 

 5|-6 mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum thinner, sides less 

 noticeably incurved, and clothed only on basal fourth. Scape 

 inserted slightly more distant from apex of rostrum, and base 

 of mesosternal receptacle decidedly smaller. 



Hah. — North Queensland (Blackburn's collection); 

 Cairns (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 1452. 



In build close to sellatus, and I was at first inclined to 

 regard it as a variety of that species, but besides the different 

 clothing it has the rostrum decidedly shorter and wider in both 

 sexes. At first glance it appears to be an elongated form of 

 Chimades lanos'us, with much shorter clothing than usual. The 

 prothorax has four fascicles, supported by feeble tubercular 

 swellings across middle, two behind same, and one in middle 

 of base. 



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