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BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 209 



grooves. Anterior leya noticeably shorter and stouter than 

 posterior. Length 9, rostrum 2; width 4^ mm. 



Hab.—" Victoria " (Pascoe). N.S.W : Mount Kosciusko (Mr. 

 W. E. Raymond), Orange (Mr. Horace W. Brown). 



I have two specimens under examination, one of which is 

 partially abraded ; it appears to have darker clothing than the 

 other specimen; its elytra are not so much dilated beyond the 

 middle; its prothorax is scarcely transverse and the granules on 

 the elytra are less numerous, being five on one side and four on 

 the other, as against eight on each side of the other specimen; 

 it is perhaps a female, but I can find no sexual differences in the 

 rostrum and antennae. 



Genus Paleticus, Pascoe. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 462. 



Head not concealed by prothorax, vertex with four more or less 

 distinct impressions, transversely depressed between eyes. Eyis 

 large, moderately (not coarsely) faceted. Rostrum long, thin or 

 moderately thin, almost parallel-sided, distinctly curved. Aidennce 

 thin; scape inserted nearer apex than base of rosti'um, passing 

 apex ; two basal joints of funicle elongate ; club moderately 

 elongate, free. Prothorax transverse, flat or moderately convex; 

 ocular lobes obtuse, ciliate ; constriction feeble ; base strongly 

 bisinuate; scutellar lobes distinct. ScnteHum almost invisible,* 

 situate in a depression. Elytra subcoi'date, wider than prothorax, 

 basal two- thirds more or less flattened and parallel, base trisinuate, 

 sides towards apex coarctate, conjointly rounded, sides inwardly 

 oblique. Pectoral canal deep, terminated between intermediate 

 coxas. Mesosternal receptacle feebly raised, base and sides rather 

 thick, emargination in ^ slightly Avider than long, in 5 slightly 

 longer than wide ; cavernous. Metasternihvi very short. Two 

 basal segments of abdomen large, soldered together, suture 

 scarcely traceable across middle; intercoxal process broad, deeply 



* Except in cordipennis. 



