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mucronate ; punctures fairly large and dense, becoming 

 crowded posteriorly, geminate rows and discal costae well 

 denned. Pygidium with dense subasperate punctures, 

 becoming crowded in corners, and sparse at apex. Front 

 tibiae strongly tridentate; basal joint of hind tarsi longer than 

 second . Length, 18'5 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Kuminin (E. P. du Boulay). 

 Type (unique), I. 10793. 



The punctures between the eyes are so crowded that part 

 of the surface has a vermiculate appearance ; the clypeus from 

 behind appears to be truncated in front, but from directly 

 above it is seen to be gently rounded. The penultimate joint 

 of the palpi from some directions appears slightly longer, but 

 from others no longer than the antepenultimate, hence, as 

 the pronotum and pygidium are black, there need be no 

 hesitation in referring this species to Blackburn's Group 8 ; 

 from the species of that group he somewhat doubtfully 

 identified as gagatina, Burm., it differs in being much larger, 

 prothorax shining, with strong well-defined punctures, and 

 the pygidium also with stronger punctures ; from funerea it 

 differs in the much coarser punctures of the entire upper- 

 surface and pygidium, and the elytra without a conspicuous 

 margining membrane ; they have, however, an extremely short 

 fringe projecting downwards that could be easily overlooked. 



Glossocheilifer bidentatus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxvi., figs. 57 and 58. 



Reddish-castaneous ; club of antennae and elytra flavous, 

 suture base and margins of the latter darker. Upper-surface 

 glabrous, except for a few long hairs in latteral gutters of 

 prothorax ; elytra with a short dense fringe of golden setae 

 projecting downwards, and with a straggling fringe of long 

 reddish hairs projecting outwards ; sterna with dense whitish 

 hair, rest of under-surface more sparsely clothed, the hairs 

 darker, stiffer, and many arising from minute granules. 



Head with fairly dense and not very large, but sharply 

 defined punctures, coarser on basal half of clypeus than else- 

 where. Clypeus gently rounded in front, margins moderately 

 upturned. Lab rum conspicuously produced and upturned 

 in front. Antennae nine-, club three-jointed. Penultimate 

 joint of maxillary palpi shorter than the adjacent ones. 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, sides strongly rounded, front 

 angles produced and acute, hind ones completely rounded off ; 

 punctures small and not very dense. Elytra, slightly dilated 

 to beyond the middle ; punctures not very dense or large but 

 sharply defined, geminate rows and discal costae feeble ; suture 

 not produced at apex. Pygidium strongly convex, punctures 



