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species with head and legs different. The dark part of the 

 elytral suture is wide and almost parallel-sided, but from 

 each side the dark part is absent, or almost so, at the 

 shoulder, and gradually dilates till near the apex it curves 

 round to join in with the sutural part; the claws and parts 

 of the tibiae, sometimes also other parts of the legs, are more 

 or less reddish. Parts of the upper-surface and of the sterna 

 have a pruinose bloom. From above the basal angles of the 

 prothorax appear to be quite right angles, but from the sides 

 they are seen to be slightly obtuse; most of the specimens 

 have a vague median line. The front claws of the male are 

 of even length, but the larger one increases much in thickness 

 to the base, although it is not appendiculate. 



Phyllotocus cribriceps, n. sp. 



cS . Black, elytra usually with some parts paler, and 

 with a bright bluish iridescence; front legs mostly flavous, 

 parts of the other legs obscurely diluted with red. Prothorax 

 and elytra fringed with long and mostly pale setae, a few on 

 head and many on under-surface and legs. 



Head with dense, sharply denned, and rather small 

 punctures. Clypeus obliquely flattened, sides slightly 

 elevated ; punctures as between eyes ; hind suture distinct only 

 at sides, the front one throughout; labrum short, sharply 

 denned, rounded and gently elevated in front. Antennae 

 eight-, club three- jointed. Prothorax about once and one- 

 half as wide as long, sides evenly rounded, apex evenly 

 incurved with the front angles acute but scarcely separately 

 produced, hind ones rounded off ; punctures sharply denned, 

 about as large as on head but not so dense. Elytra with 

 strong striae containing rather large punctures, except 

 posteriorly ; interstices rather strongly convex, narrower 

 towards sides than suture. Hind coxae at sides scarcely longer 

 than metasternum, and both with distinct punctures; all 

 femora stout, the hind ones especially so; hind tibiae shorter 

 and stouter than usual, the front ones tridentate ; front claws 

 unequal, the larger one scarcely longer than the other, but 

 more strongly curved, and with a large basal appendix. 

 Length, 4'5-5 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mapleton, in October. Type, in 

 Queensland Museum; cotype, I. 10837, in South Australian 

 Museum. 



As the antennal lamellae are long, the abdomen curved 

 to its tip, and the front claws unequal, on each of the eight 

 specimens from Mapleton, they are evidently all males. In 

 general appearance the species is close to luridus, but is 

 smaller, narrower, hind femora unarmed, and a smaller 



