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Smaller and duller than lepidoptera and with two more 

 joints to the flabellum. The white scales are fairly dense, but 

 nowhere overlapping on parts of the head and prothorax, and 

 many of them do not arise above their containing punctures. 

 There is a dense fringe of long pale hairs over the base of 

 the scutellum. The sides of the clypeus are strongly but not 

 suddenly elevated, leaving a flat portion a little more than 

 one-third of the median width, and about two-thirds of the 

 length, the flat part with larger but sparser punctures than on 

 the sloping ones. 



Lepidiota froggatti, Macl. 

 PI. xxvi., fig. 51. 



Large specimens of this species are larger (up to 42 mm.) 

 than any other specimens I have seen of the allied genera, 

 such specimens have the femora and tibiae entirely black, and 

 the hind femora have the- setiferous punctures nowhere dense, 

 and there is a comparatively wide space (about the median 

 third) from which they are quite absent. The whole of the 

 upper-surface is densely covered with short depressed setae, 

 and there is a fringe of long hairs at the apex of the pro- 

 thorax. Some specimens from the Coen River are smaller 

 (29-34 mm.), clothing of the upper-surface somewhat sparser 

 (not altogether due to abrasion), hairs of the metasternum of 

 a rusty red, and with the antennae, palpi, and legs (tibial 

 teeth excepted), more or less reddish; the setiferous punctures 

 of the hind femora are more numerous but not dense. 



var. stradbrokensis, n. var. 

 PI. xxvi., fig. 52. 

 A specimen from Stradbroke Island (taken by Mr. Hacker 

 in October, 1911) in the Queensland Museum, probably repre- 

 sents a variety of the species; it is much smaller (26 mm.), 

 no part (except the tibial teeth) is quite black, and the hind 

 femora are densely covered with setiferous punctures, and 

 their lower edge is finely serrated ; the preapical callosities of 

 the elytra are rather more pronounced ; there is also no fringe 

 of long hairs at the apex of the prothorax, and this is certainly 

 not due to abrasion, as the clothing is in perfect order. 



Systellopus ater, n. sp. 

 PI. xxvi., fig. 53. 



Black and shining. Under-surface and legs with black 

 or blackish hairs. 



Head convex and almost impunctate at base, flat and 

 with crowded punctures elsewhere. Clypeus semicircular in 



