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punctures, in places concealed. Two basal segments of abdomen 

 feebly depressed in middle. Length, 2-2^ mm. 



Flab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection) 

 Type, I. 2083. 



In some respects close to ajnonoides and vitiata, but 

 elytra more parallel-sided, spots larger, clothing denser, and 

 abdomen black; carteri is differently clothed, and with elytral 

 spots longitudinal instead of transverse. The clothing is 

 denser on the sides of the sterna than elsewhere ; on the elytra 

 it is somewhat irregularly distributed, but rather dense on 

 the third interstice, except at the dark postmedian spot. 

 From certain directions most of the scales have a vague golden 

 lustre. 



MlSOPHRICE RUFIVENTRIS, n. Sp. 



Black ; femora, tibiae, and abdomen reddish, elytra red- 

 dish, base, suture, sides, and a subapical spot on each side 

 inf uscated ; rostrum and antennae in parts obscurely diluted 

 with red. Moderately clothed with whitish subsetose scales, 

 in places with a golden lustre, denser and more squamose in 

 character on sides of sterna than elsewhere; middle of under- 

 surface glabrous or almost so. 



Rostrum much as in preceding species. Prothorax dis- 

 tinctly transverse, sides rather strongly rounded, base dis- 

 tinctly wider than apex, punctures more or less concealed. 

 Elytra at base distinctly wider than prothorax, sides almost- 

 parallel to beyond the middle ; with rows of rather large 

 punctures, partially concealed in places. Two basal segments 

 of abdomen widely flattened in middle, the apical one with 

 a small fovea. Length, 2J-2§ mm. 



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

 Type, I. 2084. 



In colour much like some forms of variabilis, but elytra 

 less dilated posteriorly (although not quite parallel-sided), and 

 with the rostrum distinctly longer, thinner, darker, and more 

 curved. In many respects close to carteri, but more densely 

 clothed and abdomen entirely pale. From the preceding 

 species it differs in the elytral markings being longitudinal 

 instead of transverse, and in the pale abdomen. The sub- 

 apical spot on each elytron is somewhat elongated, and is on 

 the fifth interstice, but partly also on the fourth and sixth. 

 The basal infuscation is subtriangularly advanced on the 

 suture. One specimen has the abdomen somewhat inf uscated 

 on the sides. 



MlSOPHRICE BREVISETOSA, n. Sp. 



Black, rostrum (tip excepted), antennae (club excepted), 

 legs, abdomen, and most of elytra more or less reddish. Head> 



