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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
rounded. Femora moderate, distance between posterior about 
equal to their length. Length 1, width f (vix) mm. 
Hah. — Sydney. 
Differs from the preceding in being broader and more convex, 
in its different puncturation and pubescence, and its differently 
shaped scutellum. 
Clypeaster Olliffi, n.sp. 
Moderately elongate. Piceous-brown; prothorax at the sides 
in front narrowly pale testaceous, or obscurely semitransparent; 
undersurface darker than above, legs and antennae testaceous, the 
latter slightly infuscate towards apex. Above almost glabrous, 
the pubescence being extremely short and sparse, undersurface 
rather more densely but still sparsely clothed. Above very densely 
and extremely minutely punctate, and with moderately dense 
shallow punctures; metasternum indistinctly punctate. 
Prothorax feebly depressed at base, very feebly if at all bisinu- 
ate, angles not produced. Scutellum transverse, semicircularly 
triangular. Elytra longer than wide, wider than prothorax, 
widest at the middle, as wide near ape x as at base, each separately 
rounded. Femora not very thick, distance between posterior 
slightly greater than their length. Length width \ mm. 
Hah. — Windsor, Sydney, Tamworth. 
The peculiar puncturation of this rather plentiful species renders 
it very distinct. 
Clypeaster squalida, n.sp. 
Moderately elongate. Piceous-brown; elytra obscurely piceous 
at apex and sides; a piceous mark at apex of prothorax, on each 
side of which is a small semitransparent obscure testaceous mark; 
legs, muzzle and antennae testaceous; antenme infuscate towards 
apex. Above equally clothed with rather short greyish pubes- 
cence, the pubescence on the undersurface as dense but some- 
what finer. Above minutely and not densely, metasternum 
minutely punctate. 
Prothorax very narrowly depressed at base, shallowly bisinuate, 
angles slightly produced. Scutellum feebly transverse, semi- 
circularly triangular. Elytra longer than wide, slightly wider 
