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other before me. The comparatively large, evenly-convex 

 abdomen, with simple front claws, are indicative that the 

 specimens taken by Mr. Hacker are females; one of them 

 has beautiful golden depressed pubescence margining the base 

 of the prothorax, of the elytra and scutellum, and forming 

 a patch on each side of the pygidium ; it is absent from the 

 other, probably due to abrasion. The elytral striae are 

 almost absent posteriorly and about the shoulders. 



Phyllotocus decipiens, n. sp. 



<3 . Black; elytra with two conspicuous flavous vittae. 

 Sides of prothorax and of elytra fringed with dark setae. 



Head gently convex and with small punctures between 

 eyes. Clypeus about thrice as wide as the median length; 

 punctures denser and coarser than between eyes, sides moder- 

 ately elevated, front not elevated in middle; labrum short, 

 distinctly separated from clypeus, moderately upturned in 

 front. Antennae eight-, club three-jointed. Prothorax 

 scarcely one-fourth wider than long, sides gently rounded, 

 front angles produced and acute, the hind ones almost rect- 

 angular; punctures as between eyes. Elytra with well- 

 defined but not even striae, mostly containing distinct but not 

 very large punctures ; interstices gently convex, narrower 

 towards sides than towards suture, with small but fairly dis- 

 tinct punctures. Hind coxae at sides scarcely one-fourth 

 longer than metasternum ; front tibiae tridentate ; front 

 claws unequal. Length ( <5 , 9)> 5-6"5 mm. 



9 ■ Differs in having the club of the antennae somewhat 

 smaller, abdomen larger, legs shorter, and front claws even. 



Hab. — Victoria: Melbourne, eating grass, in October, 

 1911 (C. French, sen.), Oakleigh (C. French, jun.) ; South 

 Australia: (F. Seeker) ; Tasmania (Simson's collection). Type, 

 I. 10839. 



In general appearance strikingly like meyriclxi, from 

 Western Australia, with which I had it confused, but the 

 front part of the head is very different ; on that species the 

 clypeus and labrum are soldered together without a con- 

 spicuous suture, the front strongly upcurved, and a wide 

 and feebly-punctate elevation occupying most of the base; on 

 the present species the suture between the clypeus and labrum 

 is well defined, the labrum is shorter, wider, and less elevated 

 in front, and the subtubercular elevation of the clypeus is 

 lower (although quite as wide) and with more conspicuous 

 punctures. In Blackburn's table of the genus it would also 

 be distinguished from mtyricki by the tridentate, instead of 

 bidentate, front tibiae; in that table it would be associated 

 with macleayi, which is a larger and very differently-coloured 





