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PSEUDOCLTTHRIA KERSHAWI, n. Sp. 



PL xiii., fig. 176. 



$ . Black ; prothorax (middle of apex and of base ex- 

 cepted) and elytra (suture and apex excepted) reddish-flavous, 

 pygidium somewhat paler, antennae and some marginal spots 

 of abdomen obscurely diluted with red. Legs and under- 

 surface with blackish hairs. 



Head j except at base, with deep and not very small, 

 clearly-defined punctures. Clypeus with margins considerably 

 elevated obliquely, front obtusely bilobed, sides rounded ; 

 punctures more irregular than on front of head. Club large, 

 almost the width of head across eyes. Prothorax rather lightly 

 transverse, sides feebly incurved towards base and apex, 

 median sinus small, the lateral ones wide, oblique, and very 

 feebly incurved ; with rather large and dense punctures, be- 

 coming smaller and sparser about middle and base. Scutellum 

 with irregularly-distributed punctures. Elytra moderately 

 long, posthumeral incurvature moderate, with a fairly wide 

 and moderately-elevated ridge about one-third from suture, 

 but disappearing posteriorly ; with dense, coarse, and irregular 

 punctures, becoming smaller about apex, and transversely 

 confluent towards sides. Pygidium moderately concentrically 

 strigose. Mesosternal process short and obtuse. Abdomen 

 shallowly depressed along middle. Front tibia strongly bi- 

 dentate, with a feeble tooth near base, apical spur rather 

 stout and short ; middle pair bidentate and unequally bi- 

 spinose at apex, rather strongly dentate slightly behind the 

 middle ; hind pair unequally tridentate at apex, about middle 

 with a transverse ridge and a smaller one near base, apex 

 with two long unequal spur^, the smaller one acute, the other 

 parallel-sided, with the apex truncate. Length, 15 mm. 



Ha.b. — South Australia. Type in National Museum, 

 Melbourne, from C. French. 



Allied to ruficoriiis, but clypeus bilobed. The colour is 

 also very different to the normal form of that species. 



PSEUDOCLITHRIA ERYTHROPTERA, n. Sp. 



PL xiii., figs. 177, 178. 



c? . Black; elytra of a brick-red, suture and sides nar- 

 rowly of a darker-red, pygidium and marginal spots of ab- 

 domen flavous. Legs and under-surface in parts densely 

 clothed with long pale hairs. 



Head with dense and rather small punctures, but base 

 impunctate. Clypeus with thick, moderately-upturned mar- 

 gins, feebly bilobed in front, the sides parallel, punctures 

 somewhat as on head ; suture with same traceable only on 



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