230 
The hairs are more conspicuously golden and denser on 
the pygidium than elsewhere. In Blackburn’s table the 
close to variolosus. 
MAECHIDIUS STRADBROKENSIS, n. sp. : 
Blackish, some parts obscurely paler, antennae and p 
reddish. Head and prothorax with rather long, stiff, erect, 
rusty-red bristles, somewhat similar but shorter and paler eV 
on pygidium, elytra with subdepressed whitish setae, an ir 
few suberect bristles; under-surface and legs with moderately 
dense, short, curved setae. 
rge median f Front tibiae strongly tridentate ; each 
claw with a conspicuous basal quill. Length, 9-115 d 
Hab.—Queensland : Stradbroke Island, in Mec ina 
Hacker) Type, in Queensland Museum ; cotype, I. 1 , 
in South Australian Museum. Wen 
neral appearance somewhat close to a species s ^ 
fully identifed by Blackburn as emarginatus, with n : 
woul associated in his table, but readily distinguishe a) 
the stiff bristles of the head and prothorax; on excisicollis > 
prothorax has much thinner setae, and the basal aar 
and elytral sculpture are different ; insularis is much sma 
and otherwise very different 
MAECHIDIUS HOPEANUS, Westw. 
M. obscurus, Macl. : Pe 
The types of obscurus agree with specimens gx 
(correctly I think) by Blackburn as Aopeanus. Mac End 
descri the prothorax as "shallowly bifoveate me de 
sides with the median line lightly marked." One o Lo 
specimens certainly appears to be bifoveate, but the esse of 
vague depressions only (much as on typical specimen 
