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Maris femoribus tibiisque anticis fere ut A. lindensis, sed) 
spinis (in illius parte media subtus positis) multo brevioribus- 
vel granuli formibus; tarsorum anticorum articulo basali 
paullo magis robusto et setulis elongatis p icum 
eminæ femoribus anticis ad apicem vix deors roduct 
tibiis intus haud crenulatis, tarsis haud ires sat 
vestitis. Long., 13—12 1.; lat., „5 l 
Distinctly larger than A. lindensis and without (or almost 
without) any indication of the dark blotches at the base of the 
elytra. Differs from the male of /indensis (and no doubt from. 
the female also) by the much less slender club of its antenne 
and the notably larger basal joint of its front tarsi. The male 
differs from the male of A. lindensis by the sexual ante-apical 
emargination and apical tooth of its anii being present only 
in the front pair and by the very much feebler inequalities on 
the middle part of the undersurface of its front femora.. Differs 
from fasciculatus, De G. inter alia by its sexual characters. 
Widely distributed in Southern Australia. 
A. asperulus, sp. nov. Ovalis; minus latus; sat convexus ;- 
piceus, pronoto antice elytris tibiisque dilutioribus, antennis 
(clava excepta) rufis; pube cinerea sparsim (exemplorum 
visorum haud maculatim) vestitus; antennis prothoracem 
punctulato, angulis posticis extrorsum manifeste prominulis ir 
elytris striatis, striis nn interstitiis aspere 
subfortiter crebre punctulatis ; femoribus mox ante apicem 
eorsu 
parvus) acuto; tarsis quam A. fasciculati, De Geer, sat 
brevioribus sat robustioribus ; coxis om inter se sat late 
separatis. Long., 14 1.; lat., Ot (vix 
I am not sure that a new genus ought i in to be formed for 
this insect on account of its short antenns, comparatively widely 
separated front cox®, and curiously shaped femora, but as. in the 
preceding two species the first of the above characters is 
approached yeg the last is even exaggerated, I think they may 
be a gradual divergence from the typical characters- 
of NU. rather than the indieation of a really distinct 
genus. The present species did ss its elongate oval form an 
pubescence not condensed into spots (I do not think the two 
specimens — me are Pei ea has scarcely the facies of 
reocerus, but the preceding two "reis (which are undoubtedly 
allied to it) com quite the facies of Areocerus. The insertion of 
