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dense in places, not very large but more or less asperate. 

 Front tibiae very strongly and acutely bidentate; basal joint 

 of hind tarsi slightly shorter than second. Length 16-19 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia; Swan River and Geraldton 

 (J. S. Clark). Type, I. 10790. 



On the Swan River specimen, the larger of the two under 

 examination, there are tufts on the front tarsal joints, 

 probably indicating that it is a male ; the shape of the labrum 

 of the Geraldton specimen is not exactly the same as on the 

 other, but it has the appearance as of being slightly malformed. 

 At first glance the species appears to be quite an ordinary 

 Hci'plonycha, like tes-taceipennis, jangi, gracilis, etc.; but with 

 the produced labrum considered by Blackburn as sufficient to 

 found the genus G/ossocheilifer; its bidentate front tibiae 

 readily distinguish it from addendus and Jabialis; in appear- 

 ance it is fairly close to the former. Disregarding the labrum 

 and associating it with Haplonycha, it would be referred to 

 Group 6 or 7, probably the former. 



Glossocheilifer addendus, Blackb. 



Recorded by Blackburn as probably from Western 

 Australia. Mr. J. S. Clark has taken specimens at Geraldton, 

 and both of us from near the Swan River. 



Stethaspis squamosus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxvi., figs. 59 and 60. 



Coppery-green or coppery-purple, elytra, antenna-e, palpi, 

 and legs more or less reddish. Irregularly clothed with white 

 scales ; tip of pygidium and parts of under-surface and of legs 

 with long white hairs. 



Head rather wide, rather lightly convex, with not very 

 numerous but sharply-defined punctures of moderate size. 

 Clypeus with hind suture strongly triangularly produced 

 backwards, middle strongly convex, margins moderately 

 elevated, front truncate ; punctures denser and larger than on 

 rest of head. Antennae nine-, club four- jointed and rather 

 small, second joint almost as long as three following combined, 

 fifth acutely produced on one side. Protkorax apparently 

 twice as wide as long, sides finely margined, subparallel on 

 basal half, thence oblique to apex, base with a conspicuous 

 median lobe, the hind angles almost rectangular, apex gently 

 arcuate, the front angles subarcuate, with an obtuse impunc- 

 tate median line on basal half, elsewhere with punctures 

 slightly smaller and usually sparser than between eyes. 

 Elytra gently dilated to beyond the middle, apex widely trun- 

 cate ; each with fourteen deep striae, containing rather small 



