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Pygidium with fairly dense punctures about base, but sparse 

 elsewhere. Front tibiae strongly tridentate; claws long, thin, 

 and equal. Length, 14-15 mm. 



llab. — Queensland: Capella (Relton collection). Type 

 in Queensland Museum, cotype, I. 10768, in South Australian 

 Museum. 



In general appearance like inermicollis, but the clypeus 

 is more semicircular, and the transverse carina is subangularly 

 elevated in the middle; pachypus has the clypeus transverse, 

 carina and legs very different ; pilosicollis is much smaller, 

 head very different, and prothorax conspicuously clothed; 

 laevis is much smaller, with the carina not elevated in middle, 

 etc. ; the males of all the other described species have the 

 prothorax armed in front. The club of the antennae is 

 distinctly longer than the front tibiae; the elytral punctures 

 are rather small and are rather distantly placed in rows, the 

 gemination of these being very feeble. Under a fairly high 

 power the whole upper-surface and the pygidium appear to 

 be very finely shagreened, and as a result less shining than on 

 other species of the genus. Both specimens appear to have 

 feeble remnants of a wide median line on the prothorax, but 

 these are possibly due to irregular contraction. 



CORYNOPHYLLUS CURVTCORNIS, n. Sp. 



PI. xxvii., fig. 81. 



d . Bright castaneous, parts of head and tibiae, and 

 margins of prothorax of scutellum and of elytra more or less 

 infuscated. Under-surface, legs, basal joint of antennae, and 

 ocular canthi with long, rusty -red hair, elytra with a rather 

 dense fringe of short pale hair projecting downwards, and a 

 somewhat longer fringe of sparser and darker hairs projecting 

 outwards ; pygidium fringed with hairs, at the base rather 

 short and irregular, at the apex longer and regular. 



Head with a strong and acute recurved horn between eyes, 

 with sharply-defined but not very large punctures. Clypeus 

 semicircular, margins rather strongly and equally upcurved. 

 Ocular canthi wide, rather flat; with shallow and dense, sub- 

 asperate punctures. Antennae ten-, club three- jointed ; club 

 widely subelliptic-ovate, about as long as width of head at 

 base. Prothorax with a wide and deep excavation, front 

 angles acutely produced, the hind ones widely obtuse; with 

 rather small and sparse but sharply-defined punctures, becom- 

 ing somewhat larger and denser on parts of sides. Scutellum 

 impunctate. Elytra not much longer than wide; with 

 subgeminate, but more or less irregular rows of fairly large 

 ring punctures, usually in very feeble striae. Pygidium with 

 sparse but distinct punctures, becoming crowded and shallow 



