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abdomen (tip excepted), and pygidium are also of a more 

 or less brick-red. 



PSEUDOCLITHRIA DEJECTA, 11. sp. 



Black, antennae and parts of legs diluted with red, elytra 

 more or less reddish towards sides, pygidium flavous, except 

 at base and apex. Densely clothed with greyish hairs, sparser 

 on elytra, abdomen, and pygidmm than elsewhere. 



Head with dense, normally-concealed punctures. Clypeus 

 feebly bilobed, sides and apex rather strongly upturned ; with 

 dense punctures. Club somewhat shorter than the width 

 across clypeus. .Prothorax about twice as wide at base as 

 at apex, sides but feebly undulated : median sinus not very 

 deep, about one-third the width of base, the others still 

 shallower ; with rather dense punctures, in parts with a ten- 

 dency to become transversely confluent. Scut ell um with fairly 

 dense punctures. Elytra short, posthumeral incurvature slight ; 

 with irregular punctures, in places transversely confluent, or 

 becoming strigae ; interstices convex, suture and third more 

 noticeably so than others, second widest of all, the three or 

 four outer ones more or less irregular, and much interrupted 

 by punctures. Pygidium concentrically strigose, a fovea on 

 each side. Mesosternal process obtuse, not produced. Front 

 tibice strongly bidentate, and with a long spur ; middle pair 

 with two strong apical teeth, and a strong subbasal one, and 

 with two long unequal spurs ; hind pair with two apical teeth, 

 the inner triangular, the outer truncate at apex, towards base 

 with a dentiform ridge, apex with two long unequal teeth, 

 the longer one curved at apex. Length, 11^-13 mm. 



Bob.— Western Australia : Perth (C. Frendh, K. 10394, of 

 Australian Museum, Sydney), Claremont (National Museum, 

 Melbourne). Type, I. 1937, in South Australian Museum. 



A small species allied to ruc/osa and maura ; from the 

 former distinguished by the uniformly black prothorax and 

 differently-coloured legs. From the latter, to which it is 

 close, by its less-rugose elytra, hairy head and prothorax, 

 clypeus more distinctly upturned in front, and by its pale 

 pygidium. The elytra are apparently coloured as in adusta, 

 but that species is described as having a very different pro- 

 "thorax. The five specimens before me differ to a slight extent 

 in size, but are yerj similar in colouration, except that the 

 elytra are more conspicuously diluted with red on some than 

 on others ; one of the National Museum (Melbourne) specimens 

 at first glance appears to have them black. They appear to be 

 all females. On specimens in perfect condition the prothorax is 

 quite densely clothed, but the hairs appear to be easily 

 abraded, so that the disc is sometimes glabrous. On several 



