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Port Denison. 
Oodes Proximus : length 54’; very nearly allied to Modes- 
tus, but having the first strize of the elytra oblique round 
the scutellum, the short one being absent as in that species ; 
the palpi and tarsi are red; the antenna of a dark brown. 
Paroo River. 
Oodes Inornatus : length 54’; oblong, elongated, depressed ; 
sides almost parallel; thorax with two rather strong im- 
pressions behind, and a very faint oblique one on the posterior 
angles; elytra striated, the first stria running obliquely 
towards the scutellum ; no short stria near this organ ; the 
entire insect is of a glossy black; tarsi and end of the palpi 
red ; antennze black. 
Swan River. 
Oodes Convexus: length 44’; oval, convex, of a shiny 
black ; thorax with a faint sulcate in the middle, feebly bi- 
impressed on its posterior margin, and having on each side 
a curved impression directed towards the interior part of the 
thorax ; it begins at about the first third of the length of 
the lateral margin, and extends to the posterior part; elytra 
very convex behind, strongly striated ; near the scutellum a 
very short stria, formed of a few punctures ; tarsi, palpi, and 
antennee red. 
Victoria, King George’s Sound, and Swan River. 
Oodes Bostock: length 54’; of a fine copper colour; body 
oblong, rather broad; head rather darker than the other 
parts ; thorax smooth, with two feeble impressions on the 
posterior margin and a very faint oblique depression towards 
the posterior angles ; elytra broad, rather convex, striated ; 
a short stria formed of punctures near the scutellum, and 
the first entire stria diverging rather obliquely in that 
part; lower side of the body, parts of the mouth and 
antennee black ; legs and tarsi of the same colour. 
Nickol Bay, Western Australia. 
Oodes Thoracicus: length 5’; oval, broad, smooth ; thorax 
with the middle longitudinal line elevated ; it has two very ° 
faint impressions on the posterior margin, and on each side a 
very deep and broad impression running in. a curved and 
oblique way from the anterior angles to the posterior margin 
of the thorax; elytra broad, curved, strongly striated ; 
all the striz entire, with only one or two small punctures 
between the first and the scutellum; anterior tarsi still more 
dilated than in the males of the other species ; the entire 
