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longer than first. Frothorax moderately transverse, sides 

 strongly rounded ; with a narrow median carina ; with fairly 

 large punctures, but each almost concealed by its contained 

 scale. Elytra rather short, subcordate, base trisinuate and 

 about one-fourth wider than prothorax ; with rows of large 

 partially-concealed punctures; with rather numerous granules 

 about base, and a few elsewhere. Metasternum rather short; 

 with a deep and rather wide median impression dilated at 

 both ends; near middle with a few large punctures, then 

 with more numerous but smaller ones ; each episterna w4th a 

 conspicuous row. Abdomen with basal segment flat in middle ; 

 with sparse and distinct, but comparatively small, punctures; 

 apical segment with dense punctures. Legs long ; femora 

 acutely dentate, hind pair distinctly passing apex of elytra. 

 Length, 7-7| mm. 



9 . Differs in being larger (9-10 mm.), rostrum longer^ 

 thinner, without basal ridges, and with smaller and sparser 

 basal punctures; antennae inserted distinctly nearer the 

 middle of rostrum, basal segment of abdomen evenly convex 

 and hind femora just passing apex of elytra. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (C. French); Little Mulgrave 

 River (H. Hacker and H. H. D. Grifiith) ; Kuranda (Hacker). 



Four of the specimens under examination have the basal 

 segment of abdomen flattened ; these I believe to be males ; 

 five others have that segment convex, and are presumably 

 females. If the sexes are as presumed, than the species is 

 readily distinguished from denticulatus by the very different 

 front legs; in any case the clothing of the prothorax should 

 be distinctive. In my table of the genus would be associated 

 with masfersi, which is a wider species, with denser and other- 

 wise different clothing, and front femora less conspicuously 

 dentate. From diKjJar, to w^hicli at first it appears to be 

 closer, it differs in the very different clothing and punctures 

 of prothorax ; the insertion of antennae also is different, and 

 the femoral dentition is weaker. On the elytra the clothing 

 is mostly of a pale-brown, variegated with irregularly dis- 

 tributed sooty spots, and with some paler ones, the latter more 

 or less congested into two feeble fasciae, one at apical third, and 

 the other (sometimes appearing as a feeble V) at basal third. 

 Each interstice has a feeble row of stout scales, and there is 

 a similar scale in each seriate puncture. On the prothorax 

 the scales are large and individually distinct (except at apex, 

 where they are small and crowded), many are sooty, but there 

 is a distinct line of pale scales along middle ^ and some 

 irregular lines on sides. On the under-surface the scales are 

 rather sparse, mostly thin and pale, but with some sooty ones 

 on the abdomen. The legs are very densely clothed. 



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