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others become visible on abrasion. The male differs from the 

 female in being thinner, with somewhat longer legs and 

 antennae, and basal segment of abdomen flattened in middle, 

 instead of moderately convex. 



Aparete hystricosa, n. sp. 



Black; parts of appendages obscurely reddish. Densely 

 clothed with more or less slaty-grey scales, more or less con- 

 spicuously variegated on the upper-surface, but becoming 

 paler and almost uniform on the lower. In addition with 

 numerous stiff erect bristles; mostly black on the upper- 

 surface, mostly pale on the under-surface and legs. 



Head with dense concealed punctures; widely depressed 

 between and behind eyes; at the side of each of these with a 

 strongly elevated, subcorneal crest or tubercle. Rostrum with 

 somewhat sinuous sides, narrowly impressed along middle, and 

 obtusely ridged on each side of same; across apex with a 

 transverse semi-naked ridge. Apex of scrobes conspicuous 

 from above. Antennae short; first joint of funicle very little 

 longer than second. Prothorax about as long as wide, sides 

 gently rounded, base slightly wider than apex, with a rather 

 conspicuous and wide median groove ; with coarse punctures 

 readily traceable through clothing. Elytra oblong-ovate, 

 much wider than prothorax, shoulders obtusely armed; with 

 rows of large, partially concealed punctures; third interstice 

 with two subconical tubercles, one at, the other before, 

 summit of posterior declivity ; fifth with two, one at, the 

 other below, summit of declivity, and with traces of others. 

 Legs moderately stout. Length, 7^-8 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Type, 

 I. 3349. 



Readily distinguished from the preceding species and from 

 palpebrosa by the numerous long erect and usually blackish 

 bristles scattered over the rostrum, prothorax, and elytra. 

 On well-preserved specimens of these species there are fairly 

 numerous stout scales rising above the plating scales, but they 

 are true (and usually spathulate) scales, which the bristles on 

 the present species most certainly are not. The supra-ocular 

 crests are about the size, but not quite the same shape, and 

 the legs are decidedly shorter than these of the preceding 

 species. On the base and apex of prothorax, on the base of 

 the elytra, and on many of the interstices (including the 

 suture) there are patches or short stripes of scales, varying 

 from ochreous to (in some lights) a glittering golden-red; 

 on the elytra also these patches are usually accentuated by 

 sooty ones. On the scutellum, and on most of the head 



