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punctures. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, parallel- 

 sided to beyond the middle ; with rows of fairly large,, 

 partially concealed punctures; fifth interstice with a distinct 

 subcorneal tubercle half-way down the posterior declivity, 

 the third with a smaller and more depressed one at summit 

 of same. Legs comparatively long. Length, 3|-4^ mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Kangaroo Island (A. M. Lea); 

 New South Wales: Sydney (Australian Museum). Type, 

 I. 2080. 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by its 

 tuberculate elytra. Squamosa is stated to have the elytra 

 "a little callous where the fifth, sixth, and seventh inter- 

 stices terminate," but also has a "nearly straight rostrum" 

 and other differences from the present species. The scales are 

 denser on parts of the under-surface than elsewhere. On the 

 elytra they are rather thin in places, and here and there are 

 slightly infuscated, giving the surface a slightly mottled 

 appearance. On the prothorax, head, base of rostrum, and 

 legs the scales are thin or setose in character. The scales 

 sometimes have a silvery gloss, and on the head are sometimes, 

 golden. Two of the typical specimens have the two basal 

 segments of abdomen more convex than on two others, but I 

 can find no other differences that are likely to be sexual. 



MlSOPHRICE INSULARIS, n. Sp. 



Black. Clothed with metallic-green scales. 



Rostrum about the length of prothorax and moderately 

 curved; basal half with fine ridges and rows of punctures, the- 

 latter continued to apex, but very small in front of antennae. 

 Prothorax feebly transverse, sides rounded, base wider than 

 apex; with dense, partially concealed punctures. Elytra dis- 

 tinctly wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to beyond the 

 middle ; with rows of rather large, partially concealed punc- 

 tures. Length, If mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Kangaroo Island (A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 2081. 



Of the build of gloriosa, but with more uniformly 

 coloured scales. On that species the scales appear to be in 

 two almost regular rows on most of the interstices, and cer- 

 tainly so on the second and third. On the present species 

 the individual scales are more transverse, and the second and 

 third interstices each have but a single row, as have most of 

 the others. From griffithi, which has scales arranged some- 

 what as on gloriosa, it differs also in being rather more robust,, 

 and the scales on the under-surface less brilliantly metallic 

 than on the upper. Its legs and antennae are also black. The 

 clothing is alike on the two typical specimens (whose sex is 



