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very little wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to apical third, 

 base strongly trisinuate ; with rows of large partially-concealed 

 punctures; interstices with dense normally-concealed ones. 

 Under-surfacc with rather dense punctures. Basal segment of 

 abdomen obliquely flattened in middle. Legs stout; femora 

 rather lightly dentate : each tibia with a strong apical hook 

 and a moderately strong subapical tooth. Length, 6-8 J mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum somewhat longer and 

 thinner, antennae inserted slightly nearer base than apex of 

 rostrum, and basal segment of abdomen convex in middle. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea): Kur- 

 anda (G. E. Bryant). Type, I. 1465. 



Differs from rhinarioidea in being larger, very differently 

 clothed, mesosternal receptacle longer, and femora dentate. In 

 general appearance it is remarkably close to N eozentudes dives, 

 but the mesosternal receptacle is U-shaped, strongly concave, 

 although not cavernous, with very thin walls, middle tibiae not 

 bidentate externally, etc. The second joint of funicle is also 

 very different. The femoral teeth are rather small and parti- 

 ally concealed by clothing. The majority of the scales are of 

 a more or less ochreous colour, but on some specimens hardly 

 more than stramineous. On the prothorax there is always a 

 small sooty spot on each side of the base, and often four feeble 

 ones across middle and two at apex. On the elytra the sooty 

 scales are in large irregular patclaes or zones, and occupy from 

 one-third to a little more than half of the surface ; they are 

 usually absent, or almost so, from the posterior declivity, and 

 most numerous about the middle and near the base. On some 

 specimens the pale scales adjoining the larger dark elytral 

 patches are almost white. On the legs the clothing is almost 

 entirely ochreoiis. On the metasternum it is largely sooty, 

 and on the abdomen almost entirely so. On the upper-surface 

 the scales are not closely applied to the derm, but project from 

 same at a slight angle. The sexual differences are but slightly 

 pronounced, as the clothing and punctures of the rostrum are 

 practically identical in both sexes. The female is usually, but 

 not always, somewhat larger than the male. There aire three 

 specimens of the species in the British Museum labelled as from 

 Albany (in Western Australia), but the locality is certainly 

 wrong. 



Var. A. Three specimens from Marmor (Queensland: H. 

 W. Brown) differ from the type in having sooty scales absent 

 from the under-surface, almost absent from the prothorax, and 

 on each elytron confined to a large submedian spot, and to a 

 smaller subbasal one ; but the latter on some specimens is very 

 feeble. The scales on the upper-surface also are distinctly 

 shorter and more closely applied to the derm. 



