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punctures minute and inconspicuous. Elytra at base scarcely 

 wider than base of prothorax, sides feebly dilated to about 

 middle, with dense and small, but rather sharply denned 

 punctures. Length, 2*5-275 mm. 



Hob. — South Australia: Parachilna (E. L. Savage). 

 Type, I. 12284. 



The sides of the elytra have short, semidecumbent setae 

 posteriorly; they are fairly numerous, but distinct only from 

 the sides, there is also a short hair projecting outwards from 

 each side of the base of the prothorax. Very faint remnants 

 of a subbasal depression may be seen on each side of the dio- 

 thorax. It is an elliptical species, and in my table would be 

 associated with D. bm/rgeoisi (now D. julesi), from which it 

 differs in having more of the legs pale, prothorax larger, 

 with the base wider, elytra somewhat shorter and wider and 

 with smaller punctures; structurally it is rather close to 

 D. blackburn/i (D. helmsi, n. pr.), but the prothoracic punc- 

 tures are much smaller, and the legs are partly pale. 



