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• Head gently convex between eyes, these fairly large and 

 rather prominent. Rostrum slightly longer than wide, sides 

 moderately incurved to middle; median carina distinct, the 

 sublateral ones rather feeble. Antennae moderately stout; 

 scape almost straight; first joint of funicle slightly longer 

 than second. Prothorax slightly more than twice as wide as 

 the median length, apex moderately incurved to middle, sides 

 rounded and increasing in width to base, which is strongly 

 bisinuate and slightly narrower than elytra, punctures rather 

 coarse. Elytra with regular rows of fairly large, partially 

 concealed punctures. Prostemum with a conspicuous, narrow, 

 medio-basal ridge. Femora stout, very feebly dentate. 

 Length, l- r i\ mm. 



Hab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection). 

 Type, I. 2542. 



Close to taylori, but prothorax more transverse, and a 

 carina replacing the median impunctate line on the rostrum 

 of that species. The prosternal carina is very distinct; on 

 many other species of the genus a faint longitudinal swelling 

 may sometimes be traced, and this just between the front 

 coxae appears almost tuberculif orm ; but on the present and 

 following species the carina is narrow and acutely elevated. 



Myllocerus intercoxalis, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown. Densely clothed with greyish-white 

 scales, obscurely mottled with brown on elytra. 



Head gently convex at base, flattened and with a small 

 fovea between eyes; these very prominent. Rostrum scarcely 

 as long as the width at base, sides feebly incurved to near 

 apex, with a shining median line (scarcely a carina), sub- 

 lateral carinae fairly distinct. Antennae moderately long; 

 scape gently curved; first joint of funicle distinctly longer 

 than second. Prothorax somewhat less than twice as wide 

 as the median length, apex almost straight, sides gently 

 rounded and increasing in width to base; punctures traceable. 

 Elytra slightly wider than prothorax, with regular rows of 

 moderate punctures, appearing small through clothing. 

 Prostemum with a conspicuous, narrow, medio-basal ridge, 

 its apex projecting between front coxae. Femora very feebly 

 dentate. Length, 7 \ mm. 



Hab. — Northern Territory: Tennant Creek (J. F. 

 Field). Type, I. 2543. 



With a conspicuous prosternal ridge as on the preceding 

 species, but otherwise not very close to same. The head is 

 much as in latibasis, but the prothorax is much less trans- 

 verse, and the medio-apical incurvature is very feeble. In 

 build close to aphthosus, but head wider, clothing not at all 



