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On the protliorax the scales have a somewhat sooty 

 appearance on four spots across the middle, and on two at base 

 and two at apex, but the four latter are very feeble. On the 

 elytra the sooty scales occupy most of the basal two-thirds, 

 and form two small spots on the posterior declivity. The head 

 is mostly clothed with sooty scales. On the under-surface the 

 clothing is dense ; there are a few white scales on the sterna, 

 but sooty ones are absent. Nearly all the pale scales (except 

 on the legs) are quite circular, this being especially noticeable 

 on the under-surface. From certain directions the small 

 tooth, near the outer base of each tibia, is fairly distinct, 

 but it is more or less concealed by the clothing. 



EVANIOCIS ALBICANS, U. Sp. 



Blackish-brown; antennae and tarsi of a dingy-red. 

 Densely clothed with white scales ; with a few sooty ones scat- 

 tered about on head and prothorax; but head with a large, 

 irregular, sooty blotch. 



Head with dense concealed punctures. Rostrum almost 

 perfectly straight, slightly dilated near base, elsewhere 

 parallel-sided; basal third with coarse concealed punctures, 

 elsewhere shining and with minute punctures. Scape inserted 

 slightly nearer base than apex of rostrum. Protliorax sub- 

 conical, very little wider than long; with dense normally- 

 concealed punctures of uniform size. Elytra with outlines 

 and sculpture as in preceding species. Under-surface with 

 dense normally-concealed punctures. Femora very feebly 

 dentate. Length, 6| mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Kuranda (G. E. Bryant). 



The outlines are much as in the preceding species, but 

 the clothing is very different, the four hind tibiae are more 

 distinctly dentate near the outer base, and the rostrum is 

 almost quite straight. The dentition of the four hind femora 

 is very feeble, and could easily be overlooked, whilst of the 

 front pair it is so very small and obscured by clothing that 

 it almost reaches the vanishing point. 



Tyrt^osus trianguliferus, n. sp. 



(S ■ Of a dingy piceous-brown or black, in places more 

 or less distinctly diluted with red; antennae and tarsi reddish. 

 Prothorax with scales varying from ashen to ochreous, and 

 usually somew^hat lineate in arrangement. Elytra with rather 

 dense ashen-grey scales, but absent from a large subtriangular 

 space on each side, the interstices with more or less regular 

 rows of ochreous scales, but none on dark lateral spaces. 



