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specimens not greatly abraded. In some examples some of the 

 fuscous spots are wanting so that the fasciae are more or less 

 interrupted. There is a conspicuous depression on the basal 

 ventral segment. The pattern on the elytra is perhaps somewhat 

 similar to the " tesselation" which Mr. Pascoe briefly mentions on 

 the elytra of E. lineigera from N. S. Wales ; — that species how- 

 ever has the head "abruptly callous between the eyes." Compared 

 with E. scolopax the rostrum in this species is shorter and stouter 

 and the antennae are less slender and are inserted nearer the apex, 

 the 2nd joint of the antennal funiculus is shorter in comparison of 

 the 1st and 3rd, the intermediate ventral sutures are decidedly 

 drawn backward (though scarcely angularly) at their lateral 

 extremities and the presternum in front of the anterior coxae is 

 much more decidedly concave longitudinally. 



S. Australia, near Adelaide. Specimens from Port Lincoln and 

 Morgan seem identical though that from the latter locality is too 

 much abraded for certainty. 



Emplesis gravis, sp.nov. 



Obscure fusca, squamis griseis disperse minus dense vestita ; 

 an tennis sat validis, funiculi articulo 1° 2° dimidia parte 

 longiori, 3-7 brevibus, 3-5 modice (6 et 7 fortiter) transversis; 

 prothorace antice sat anguste rotundato-producto, apicem 

 versus subito fortiter constricto, lateribus pone constrictionem 

 subrectis ; elytris punctulato-striatis ; prosterno antice longi- 

 tudinaliter concavo. [Long. 2-2 J, lat. i-^ line. 



Maris rostro minus valido, parum arcuato, prothorace 

 paullo longiori, antennis pauUo ante medium insertis. 



Feminse rostro sat gracili, fortiter arcuato, prothorace fere 

 duplo longiori, antennis mox pone medium insertis. 



A robust darkly coloured species with its paler scales evenly 

 dispersed but not closely enough to hide the sculpture, especially 

 on the prothorax where the close and moderately strong but not 

 rugulose puucturation is quite conspicuous. The constriction near 

 the front of the prothorax is much more abrupt than in the other^ 



