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excavato, adlatera niveo-maculato j scutello orbiculari, niveo ; elytris, 

 basin versus perparum depressis, postice sensira declivibus, striato- 

 punctatis, punctis parvis, interstitiis valde convexis, basi raaculis exi- 

 guis 6-8, pone medium maculis majoribus fasciam arcuatam formanti- 

 bus, apiceque plaga maxima, ornatis ; pectore niveo-squamoso ; abdo- 

 mine plerumque nigro, nudo ; pedibusnigro niveoque annularis; tarsi s 

 albo-pilosis. Long. 8 lin. 

 Hab. Goram. 



Amtdala. 



(Cryptorhynchinae.) 



Hostrum validum, breviusculum, rectum, basi latiore ; scrobes me- 

 dianae laterales ; scapus brevis, gradatim crassior, ante medium 

 rostri iusertus ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulis duobus basa- 

 libus longioribus, ca3teris transversis ; clava elongata, cylindrica. 

 Oculi subgrosse granulati, antice remoti. Proihorax conicus, 

 antice.productus, basi truncatus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Scu- 

 tellum invisum. Elytra elongato-obconica, valde convexa, pro- 

 tborace basi vix latiora. Pedes mediocres ; femora ampla, com- 

 pressa, infra canaliculata ; tibiae rectae, teretes ; tarsi normales. 

 Pima pectoralis profunda, post coxas anticas terminata, apice 

 fornicata. Abdomen segmento primo lamina transversa in- 

 structo. 



The first abdominal segment of the species described below is 

 furnished with a broad, flat, somewhat cordiform plate, edged with 

 a narrow, glossy, black, elevated line, trenching considerably on 

 the second segment. Something of the same kind, but of a much 

 slighter character, is seen in Arnpagia, a near ally of this genus. 

 Both genera, as well as Bepharus, belong to that section of Cryp- 

 torhynchinae of which Sympiezoscelus is the type. This genus is 

 at once differentiated by the form of the club ; the species de- 

 scribed below is remarkably like Perissops mucidus {ante, p. 194). 



Amydala abdominalis. (PI. VI. fig. 11.) A. subelliptica, nigra, 

 squamis variis, plerumque griseis, omnino sat dense tecta ; rostro api- 

 cem versus nudo nitido, subvage punctato ; clava antennarum funiculo 

 longitudine fere aequali ; prothorace in medio plaga triangulari laete 

 fulva ornato ; elytris pone basin latioribus, maculis dilutioribus irro- 

 ratis, regione scutellari plaga nigra nuda elevata, granulisque tecta, 

 elongato-cordiformi notata ; femoribus posticis supra elevatis et valde 

 compressis ; tibiis basi extus paulo productis j larsis infra dense aureo- 

 tomentosis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Queensland (Wide Bay). 



