BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 705 



rather denser on metasternum than elsewhere. Length 4^, 

 rostrum 1J; width 2 J; variation in length 4-5 mm. 



Hob. — N.S. W.: Rope's Creek and Sydney. 



The clothing is somewhat variable; in some specimens the paler 

 scales are almost white. 



Phlceoglymma mixta Lea, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic. 1908, p. 193. 



Hab. — King Island. 

 Phlceoglymma dorsalis Pasc; I.e. 5506. (Axides dor sails Pasc.) 



Piceous; elytra and under surface reddish-piceous; antennae 

 dull red, club darker. Densely clothed with rounded scales. 

 Head with ochreous scales, becoming pale yellow on vertex and 

 base of rostrum. Prothorax with pale yellow scales about apex 

 and sides, a subquadrate dark patch at base, elongate erect scales 

 scattered about and condensed to form six loose feeble fascicles, 

 four across middle and one on each side of apex. Elytra with 

 pale scales on shoulder and apical two-fifths, a dark dorsal patch 

 abruptly terminated posteriorly, but towards base and sides more 

 or less encroached upon by paler scales, a moderately large round 

 ochreous patch on each side of base; each puncture containing a 

 scale; each elytron with four feeble fascicles : two on the 2nd 

 interstice, one on the 4th about middle and one on the 3rd near 

 base; elongate suberect scales placed almost regularly on the 

 interstices. Under surface and legs with regular and almost 

 white scales. 



Moderately wide and suboblong. Head with the ocular fovea 

 very distinct. Rostrum shorter, wider and more strongly curved 

 than in P. alternans, wider at base than at apex, feebly 

 grooved at sides of base; in <J moderately, in Q rather finely 

 punctate. Scape scarcely two-thirds the length of funicle, inserted 

 two-fifths from base of rostrum; first joint of funicle once and 

 one-half the length of second. Prothorax subcorneal, transverse, 

 apex half the width of base, a very feeble median carina (usually 

 concealed) commencing at base and terminating before apex; 

 densely punctate, punctures round and each overlapped by a 

 scale. Elytra considerably wider than and feebly raised above 

 prothorax, sides parallel to near apex; striate-punctate, punctures 



