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one-third the width, parallel-sided to near apex; with series 

 of rather large, round, distant punctures ; interstices wider 

 than punctures, the third with three, the fifth with four 

 feeble elongate tubercles ; suture thickened from before to 

 about middle of posterior declivity ; each side of suture 

 towards base with small, shining granules. Punctures of 

 under -sur face entirely concealed. Femora with triangular 

 teeth, those of the posterior large, of the four anterior con- 

 siderably smaller, but still large. Length, 6 J mm. ; ros- 

 trum, 2 mm. ; width, 3 mm. 



Bob. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum), Kuranda 

 (G. E. Bryant). 



The forehead is very distinctly sinuate, but each emar- 

 gination is slight. From some directions the third and fourth 

 abdominal segments are seen to be drawn slightly backwards 

 at the sides. 



ROPTOPERUS TERP^E-REGIN^, U. sp. 



d . Dark-brown, antennae and tarsi of a rather pale-red. 

 Very densely clothed with loose fawn-coloured scales, forming 

 ten fascicles on prothorax and about twenty on elytra. Head 

 and base of rostrum and the legs very densely clothed, the 

 latter in addition with elongate scales. 



Head moderately convex, depressed towards base; punc- 

 tures concealed. Rostrum shorter than prothorax, noticeably 

 wider at base than at apex; punctures of basal two-thirds 

 coarse and concealed, apical third shining but rather strongly 

 punctate. First joint of funicle stouter and slightly longer 

 than second, the others feebly transverse. Prothorax dis- 

 tinctly transverse, punctures nowhere traceable. Elytra more 

 than twice the length of prothorax ; apparently rather 

 strongly tuberculate beneath fascicles ; punctures everywhere 

 concealed. Two basal segments of abdomen with rather large 

 and not entirely concealed punctures. Posterior femora ex- 

 tending to apical segment of abdomen. Length, 4 mm. ; 

 rostrum, 1 mm.; width, 2 mm. 



Hob. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum). 



The clothing is much the same as in tasmaniensis , except 

 that it is considerably denser (except on the two basal seg- 

 ments of abdomen, where it is sparser) and that the legs (at 

 least in the unique specimen under examination) are not 

 at all ringed. It may be at once distinguished, however, by 

 the decidedly transverse prothorax. The base of the head 

 is as in the following species, but the clothing, especially of 

 the rostrum, is very different. 



