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so towards the lateral margins. The surface of a specimen in good 
condition is of an ashy colour, being densely clothed with 
brownish and whitish bairs very evenly “intermingled. On this 
pronotum and the three smaller ones on each elytron. The 
scutellum is white. The tubercles are a little larger in some 
examples than in others. 
S. Australia. 
UE TROPIDERES (1) 
It is with deg a. that I refer to Tropideres, > 
minute Anthribid described below. Nevertheless, it seems to 
lack any character ‘shat would definitely exclude it from ^w 
te genu 
characte . Lacordaire, is made to contain, at any 
longer than the basal joint be in itself deemed suflicient. The . 
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form and concealed, its plane not evenly continuous with that o 
the head; antenns not long enough to reach the base of the 
its surface even, its Aachen carina arched with convexity 
the lateral margin); elytra slightly gibbous close to the 
on the disc, but otherwise even or nearly so, obscurely dire 
striate ; front coxæ a contiguous to each other ; legs some- 
what short and of nearly equal length ; tarsi moderately Cr 
; iA 
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middle line about as long as the basal ventral segment. 
T. onsen: sp. nov. Piceus, antennis (clava excepta) pedi- 
.. busque rufescentibus; pube sat elongata albida disperse 
