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Distinguished from all previously named Australian 

 species, except D. fuscipennis, by the upright clothing on pro- 

 thorax, in addition to the pubescence; from that species it 

 is distinguished by its narrower and more convex form, much 

 smaller eyes, prothorax with much denser and smaller punc- 

 tures, elytra with a metallic gloss, and with smaller 

 punctures, etc. 



Dasytes hexatrichus, n. sp. 



Black; upper-surface with a coppery gloss. Densely 

 clothed with short, depressed, pale pubescence; head in 

 addition with two long hairs, and two on each side of 

 prothorax. 



Head rather wide, with small crowded punctures, with 

 two conspicuous longitudinal impressions in front, the inter- 

 vening space bronzy. Antennae rather short, some of the joints 

 transverse. Prothorax almost twice as wide as long, sides 

 and base finely margined, hind angles rounded off ; with 

 crowded and small, asperate punctures. Elytra distinctly 

 wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex ; with 

 crowded and small punctures, mostly separately impressed, 

 but in places asperate and subconfluent. Length, 3*25-4 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Tvpe, 

 T. 12287. 



Structurally close to D. squiresensis, but elytra pubescent 

 only, and six long hairs on head and prothorax; D. abimdans, 

 with similar hairs, is a much smaller species, with legs and 

 antennae partly pale, and frontal impressions much less 

 conspicuous. 



Dasytes abdominalis, n. sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with ashen pubescence, the elytra 

 in addition with numerous subdepressed setae. 



Head with dense and small punctures, rather more dis- 

 tinct about base than elsewhere ; two vague depressions in 

 front. Antennae short, most of the joints transverse. Pro- 

 thorax almost twice as wide as long, sides and base rounded 

 and very finely margined, hind angles rounded off, a vague 

 transverse depression near base; punctures minute. Elytra 

 very little wider than prothorax at base, sides feeblv dilated 

 to near apex; with dense and rather sharply defined punc- 

 tures, in places slightly confluent, and becoming smaller 

 posteriorly. Length, 2*5-3 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Yilgarn (Blackburn's col- 

 lection, from E. Meyrick). Type, I. 12288. 



Rather more robust than D. australiae, impression near 

 base of prothorax fainter, and elytral clothing of two kinds; 



