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truncato quam interoculos caput haud angustiori ; antennis 

 prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis 9° 10° 

 que trans versis 11° ovato ad apicem acuto extus leviter 

 excavato; prothorace leviter transverso, sat aequaliter fere 

 ut caput ruguloso, sat longe pone apicem arcuatim (et mox 

 ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum late impresso 

 (parte impressa in fundo longitudinaliter canaliculata), 

 lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim for- 

 titer rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio 

 inter series 9 am 10 am que parum ultra medium distincto), 

 prope scutellum utrinque et ad humeros manifeste tumidis, 

 foveolis (serie subsuturali excepta) in parte basali obsoletis 

 et in parte apicali tertia confusis et minus distinctis nee 

 manifeste quadratis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum inter- 

 stitiis trans versis multo turbatis. Long., 24 1.; lat.., 1 1. 



In this species the discal sculpture of the elytra becomes con- 

 fused and feeble towards the apex more rapidly than in the 

 other species of the aggregate which I have tabulated as having 

 this sculpture only gradually enfeebled, — so that it is somewhat 

 intermediate between that aggregate and the next. Its general 

 characters associate it with A. eremita from which it differs in 

 many points (cited in the description), the most definite being 

 perhaps that mentioned in the tabulation, — the seriate foveas of 

 the elytra commencing considerably behind the base of the 

 elytra. It is a shorter and more depressed species than A. eremita 

 and does not seem to vary in colour (I have half a dozen specimens 

 taken in company). The part of the prothorax in front of the 

 anterior transverse sulcus is so strongly rounded separately at 

 its sides that the lateral outline of the prothorax (viewed from 

 above) seems to have a deep emargination a little behind its 

 front extremity. A. parvulus, Blackb., is somewhat closely 

 allied to this and the preceding species (A. eremita), but is easily 

 distinguished from them by inter alia its clypeus considerably 

 narrower in front and strongly emarginate, and by the transverse 

 interstices of its elytral foveae being so strong and continuous as 

 almost to conceal the existence of the longitudinal interstices. 



Victorian Alps. 



A. cribratus, sp. no v. Modice elongatus, minus convexus ; supra 

 cyaneus, antennis palpis et (tibiis tarsisque posterioribus 

 nigris exceptis) pedibus testaceis ; subtus cyaneus vel 

 viridescens ; pilis elongatis (his in corpore supra obscuris, in 

 corpore subtus albidis) vestitus ; capite confertim aequaliter 

 ruguloso, inter oculos fovea impresso ; antennis prothoracem 

 medium parum superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que transversis 

 11° obovato ad apicem acuto ; prothorace quam latiori sub- 

 longiori, ut caput punctulato, sat longe pone apicem 



