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All the femora very acutely and distinctly dentate. Length, 

 5| mm. ; rostrum, 1§ mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania (type in Mr. A. Simson's collection). 



The specimen described appears to be a female. The 

 species resembles the preceding one, especially as regards the 

 shoulders, but the clothing is very different, the prothorax is 

 less transverse, the elytra are much shorter (in consequence 

 of the posterior declivity being very abrupt), and the tubercles 

 are differently disposed and less uniform in size ; the femoral 

 teeth are also considerably larger and more acute. 



EXITHIUS CONSPICIENDUS, n. Sp. 



Densely clothed with dingy-brown scales ; prothorax with 

 a very distinct patch of large, soft, pale, rounded scales, 

 commencing at the middle of the base, curved round and ter- 

 minating in the median fascicle on each side of the middle. 

 Prothorax with six fascicles, each elytral tubercle feebly 

 fasciculate. 



Head coarsely punctate but not at base; forehead very 

 distinctly and moderately deeply trisinuate. Rostrum shin- 

 ing ; densely but not very coarsely punctate (except at base) 

 in ($ , almost impunctate (except at base) in 9 • Prothorax 

 moderately transverse, sides rounded, with dense concealed 

 punctures. Elytra almost truncate at base ; the alternate 

 interstices with small tubercular elevations ; with series of 

 large (almost concealed) punctures. Two basal segments of 

 abdomen with dense round punctures. Femora not very dis- 

 tinctly punctate. Length, 5 mm.; rostrum, 1J mm. ; width, 

 2| mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania (Macleay Museum) : Hobart (L. Rod- 

 way, H. H. D. Griffith, R. A. Black, and A. M. Lea); 

 Mount Wellington (A. M. Lea). 



The shape of the patch of pale scales on the prothorax 

 is remarkable. 



Two specimens differ in being smaller (4 mm.), in having 

 the patch of scales on the prothorax snowy-white, and (very 

 feebly) narrowly continued to apex, each side with a narrow 

 pale stripe ; the scutellum is white ; each shoulder is white, 

 the whole of the posterior declivity for the width of three 

 interstices on each side with a triangular lateral extension 

 near the summit is white, and the femora are very decidedly 

 ringed. I cannot regard these specimens, however, as repre- 

 senting more than a variety. 



Exithius loculosus, n. sp. 

 Densely clothed with soft, sooty scales. Prothorax and 

 elytra with the usual fascicles. 

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