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Spin. var. } from which it differs | apart from colour and markings) 

 chieflv bv its shorter and more convex form, the larger and less 

 crowded fovea? of its elytral series, the less abrupt cessation pos- 

 teriorly of the same fovea?, and their continuity to the actual 

 base of the elytra. The antenna? of these two species are ex- 

 tremely similar, also the conspicuousness of the ninth and tenth 

 series of fovea? and their interstice to the commencement of the 

 smooth apical part of the elytra. 

 S. Australia ( Yorke Peninsula). 



A. dives, sp. now Cyaneus, elytrorum parte dimidia basali 



testacea utrinque macula magna atro-cy=inea humerali 

 ornata | parte dimidia apicali atro-eyanea utrinque macula 

 magna sanguinea ante-apicali nocata,), antennis palpis tibiis 

 anticis tibiarum intermediarum apice et tarsis antieis inter- 

 mediisque testaceis : pilis albidis elongatis sparsim vestitus ; 

 capite fortiter minus crebre punctulato: antennis prothor- 

 acem medium haud attingentibus, articulis 9 = — 11" trans- 

 versis. 11 = ad apicem leviter emarginato : prothorace sat 

 fortiter transverse fere ut caput (sed nonnihii magis grosse) 

 punctulato. antice breviter tubulato, ad partis tubulate 

 basin transversim fortiter arcuatim sulcato, pone sulcum 

 late concavo, in partis concava? fundo longitudinaliter sulcato. 

 mox ante basin transversim sulcato, lateribus inter sulcos 

 transversos sat fortiter rotundatis : elytris 10-seriatim grosse 

 foveolatis interstitiis minus angustis, seriebus basin versus 

 obsoletis nee elytrorum partem apicalem tertiam attingenti- 

 bus, hac sparsim sat subtiliter punctulata, seriebus 9' 10* que 

 vix ultra elytra media attingentibus. Long., 3 1.: lat., li 1. 

 (vix). 

 In this species the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is more 

 stronglv securiform than in most of its congeners. Lacordaire 

 tabulates Aulicus as having that joint securiform, but in diagnos- 

 ing the genus savs that it is of the form of an elongate triangle, 

 which is quite correct as regards most of the species. — but in this 

 one the triangle is scarcely elongate. It may be noted, too, that 

 Lacordaire calls the claws of Aulicus i: simple," but I tind them 

 to have a very small and feeble sub-basal tooth which in the 

 present species is scarcely traceable. This species is remarkable 

 for its short antenna?, having their apical joint distinctly trans- 

 verse. The seriate punctures of the elytra are scarcely smaller 

 than in A. crcesus but they are less sharply denned, their inter- 

 stices being less narrow and carina-like than in most Aulici. 

 Apart from coloring and pattern the present species differs from 

 A. ckrysurus, inter alia by the very much coarser seriate punc- 

 tures of its elytra, from A. crcesus by the seriate puctures of the 

 elytra not nearly reaching the base, from A. episcopal is by the 



