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shortly cylindric, other joints hairy and successively a little 

 wider, 2 very small, 3-10 moniliform (8-10 slightly triangu- 

 lar), 11 oval. Prothorax very transverse. Scutellum equi- 

 lateral-triangular, anterior coxae close, middle and posterior 

 more widely separated, the middle coxae without distinct 

 trochantins, posterior intercoxal process triangular ; pro- 

 sternum shortly produced into a shallow arcuate receptacle 

 in the mesosternum. Legs slender, scantily pilose, tibiae not 

 dilated at apex, tibial spurs very short, first joint of pos- 

 terior tarsi as long as the rest combined, all tarsi very slightly 

 pubescent. 



Trichulodes punctatus, n. sp. 



Ovate, subnitid reddish-brown, flanks of pronotum paler, 

 oral organs, extreme basal and apical joints of antennae, and 

 legs yellow, the remaining joints of antennae and sternum 

 fuscous, abdomen and basal half of femora dark-brown ; the 

 whole upper-surface clothed with long thin upright red hairs. 



Head coarsely rugose-punctate, space between the eyes 

 about as wide as the apparent (seen from above) diameter of 

 one eye. Prothorax 1 x 2*5 mm., subtruneate at apex and 

 base, widest at middle, anterior angles obtuse and scarcely 

 produced, sides widely rounded, strongly-sinuately incurved 

 behind the middle, then dentate and again incurved to the 

 widely-obtuse posterior angle ; extreme border crenulate, 

 foliate margins horizontal, ending at the middle tooth ; disc 

 coarsely rugose-punctate with raised nitid medial impression 

 and vermiculate nitid intervals. Elytra oval, rather depressed, 

 considerably wider than prothorax at base, shoulders round 

 but prominent and subrectangular, with narrow crenulate 

 border not channelled within ; the whole surface a network 

 of subconfluent punctures, the intervals finely rugose and 

 nitid, a single hair arising from each puncture. Prosternum 

 coarsely; abdomen finely punctate, the latter sparsely pilose. 

 Dimensions — 5-6 x 3 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns. 



Three specimens, including the sexes which are scarcely 

 differentiated. At first sight very near Ectyche, especially 

 in the shape of the prothorax with broadly-emarginate pos- 

 terior angle, dentate in the middle ; but its winged body, non- 

 striate elytra, wider form, undilated tibiae, inter alia, place 

 it in a different group. In some respects it seems to come 

 near some genera of the Hetero tar since (e.g., Lyprops), which 

 are not so far recorded from Australia, and with which I am 

 not acquainted. It seems best placed near the end of TJlo- 

 din/e near G any me (in which the apical- joints of the antennae 

 are also pale-coloured, but with much stouter joints), es- 

 pecially since there are no trochantins to the middle coxae. 



