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Family RHIPIPHORID^. 



79. Emenadia cucullata. 



Black, subnitid. Head much elevated on the vertex into a 

 narrow transverse ridge, in front vertical and densely punctate, 

 between the antennse a smoothish impression, a deep median 

 impression on the clypeus and labrum. Thorax very minutely 

 and densely granulose punctate, with a tubercle on the basal lobe 

 from which a fine carioa extends along the median line and back of 

 the head up to the elevated vertex. Elytra with the usual sculp- 

 ture of the genus, but short, acute and dehiscent, the colour black, 

 with inconspicuous piceous red spots on the apical third. Beneath 

 nitid and minutely punctate. 



Length, 4 to 7 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



81. Pelocotomoides marmoratus. 



Brown, covered with a rather short decumbent cinereous pubes- 

 cence. Head punctate, eyes large, approximate in front, receding 

 behind, snout produced. Thorax about as long as the width at the 

 base. Elytra of the width of the thorax at the base, more than 

 three times the length, and gradually narrowed to the apex, the 

 pubescence is interrupted in several transverse patches, giving a 

 fasciated appearance. The under surface is thinly pubescent. 



Length, 5 to 7 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



82. Pelocotomoides aureotincta. 



Of a light chocolate-brown above and beneath, and clothed with 



a rather thin silky pubescence. Head with the pubescence golden, 



the eyes rather distant. Thorax lobate and emarginate on each 

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