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to have a small basal granule. The nine-jointed antennae 
associate this species with laticollis and helaeoides, in Black- 
type) of that species before me have the basal joint decidedly 
shorter and thicker than the second. 
ByRRHOMORPHA RUDIS, n. Sp. 
Black; antennae, palpi, and parts of tarsi reddish. 
Metasternum with fairly numerous blackish hairs, rest of 
under-surface and legs sparsely clothed. 
ead with crowded but sharply-defined punctures of 
moderatesize. Clypeus widely excavated in front, sides rather 
produced and acute, hind ones somewhat obtuse; median line 
rather feeble at base, but rather wide and deep in front; 
punetures much as on head, but becoming smaller (although 
not sparser) towards all margins. Seutellum with dense 
punctures, but tip polished and impunctate. Elytra feebly 
dilated to beyond the middle, each obliquely truncate at apex ; 
striae deep and wide, with coarse, irregular punctures, the 
mterstices irregular, and with sharply-defined punctures. 
P ygidium with crowded asperate punctures, and a distinc 
median line. Front tibiae strongly tridentate. Length, 
_ Hab. — Western Australia: King George Sound 
ber Museum), Warren River (W. D. Dodd). Type, 
A rough-looking species close to verres, but club with 
only three joints, prothorax with more crowded punctures, 
