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Head convex; with fairly large punctures. Clypeus shin 

 ing ; with dense punctures, becoming smaller in front ; apex 

 obtusely notched, the tips lightly elevated. Club slightly 

 longer than eye. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides 

 strongly rounded, diminishing in width to apex, middle of 

 base obtusely incurved; with fairly large, shallow punctures. 

 Scutellum elongate, with a few punctures. Elytra across 

 shoulders distinctly wider than prothorax, sides at base some- 

 what excavated for reception of scapulae, posthumeral incurva- 

 ture rather strong, sides thence feebly diminishing in width 

 to apex, which is widely and evenly rounded ; narrowly and 

 irregularly striated, and with irregular rows of punctures on 

 sutural half of each elytron, sides with irregular punctures, 

 but posteriorly and about apex rather coarsely strigose ; third 

 and fifth interstices obtusely elevated beyond the middle. 

 Pygidium transversely strigose. Abdomen strongly convex 

 along middle. Front tibice tridentate, the two apical teeth 

 acute and rather large, the other smaller and more obtuse, 

 the other tibise bispinose and tridentate at apex, and acutely 

 dentate in middle. Length ( S , $), 14-14J mm. 



9 . Differs in having the pygidium much more trans- 

 verse, and the abdomen wider and less convex. 



Hob. — Queensland: Coen River (W. D. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 2250, in South Australian Museum. 



The outlines are much as in pulchra, but readily distin- 

 guished from that species by the oblique humeral markings, 

 which are pale portions of the derm itself, although in parts 

 covered with an indumentum ; but the other markings appear 

 to be composed entirely of indumentum ; at least where I 

 have partially abraded them the derm beneath is black. Most 

 of the punctures on the prothorax and elytra, although fairly 

 large, appear to be partially obscured by a velvety indumen- 

 tum, each usually has a small central pit, but this is fre- 

 quently concealed. 



Prot^etia mandarinea, Weber. 



Recorded by Blackburn as from Queensland, where it ap- 

 pears to be a fairly common species about Cairns, Townsville, 

 Brisbane, etc. Hockings stated that it "sometimes attacks 

 the hive bees here (Brisbane) in great numbers." In Gem- 

 minger and Harold (p. 1327) it is referred to Getonia, and 

 several synonyms and varieties are given. 



Prot\etia advena, Janson. 

 In Masters' Catalogue referred to Getonia, without 

 authority for the transfer being noted. As Janson stated 

 that it was somewhat similar to mandarinea it appears better 



