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emarginato ; antennis robustis prothoracem medium paullo 

 superantibus, articulis basali crasso superne nullo modo 

 visibili, 2° quam basalis breviori minus crasso quam latiori 

 vix longiori, 3° 4° que inter se sat aequalibus quam 2 ns sat 

 longioribus, 5° quam 4 US paullo breviori ad apicem dilatato 

 quam latiori parum longiori, 6° intus ad apicem dilatato 

 transverso quam 5 US paullo breviori, 7° intus etiam magis 

 dilatato quam longiori duplo latiori quam 6 US vix breviori, 

 8° 7° similis sed paullo magis transverso, 9° 10° que inter se 

 sequilatis (hoc paullo breviori) quam 8 US parum latioribus y 

 11° breviter transversim subovato ; oculis in fronte modice 

 inter se approximatis ; prothorace vix transverso, eequali, 

 subgrosse minus profunde nonnihil acervatim punctulato, 

 lateribus a basi longe ultra medium sat parallelis dein con- 

 vergentibus ; ely tris striati s, striis fortiter nee crebre 

 punctulatis, interstitiis planis ; coxis anticis subcontiguis. 

 Long., 4i l.j lat., If 1. 



The markings of the surface are caused by patches of pube- 

 scence different in colour from the ground. On the upper surface 

 the pubescence forming the ground is of a smoky blackish tone ; 

 on the head and prothorax there are numerous small spots of 

 testaceous brown ; the scutellum is covered with white pube- 

 scence ; on the elytra spots (very various in size) of white pube- 

 scence form two zones — one post-basal, the other ante-apical. 

 The post-basal zone is an irregular common festoon of unequal 

 spots with its ends on the shoulders ; the ante-basal zone is on 

 each elytron a transverse spot of irregularly triangular form — 

 its base near but not touching the suture, its apex (which is 

 truncate) near but not touching the lateral margin. Besides the 

 two zones there are a few small white pubescent spots about the 

 lateral margin and apex The undersurface and legs are densely 

 clothed with pale grey very fine pubescence. On this ground 

 coarse puncturation appears as dark spots on the sterna, there is 

 an elongate spot of ochreous pubescence on the lateral margins 

 of each ventral segment, and the legs are variegated with dark 

 pubescence. Joints 9 and 10 of the antennae are scarcely 

 narrower than the interval between the eyes. 



A specimen from N". Queensland may be the female of this 

 species. Its antennse are a trifle shorter than those of the 

 described male and distinctly more slender, their basal 7 joints 

 cylindric and not differing much in size except in the 4th being 

 somewhat the longest, the 8th is distinctly dilated and trans- 

 verse, joints 9 — 11 forming a club, and much like joints 9 — 11 

 of the male, but less dilated. The only differences that I observe 

 (not already mentioned) from the male consist in the eyes being 

 a little less approximate to each other, and the elytra having 



