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condensatis ; supra (pedibus inclusis) pilis erectis nigi'is sat 

 dense vestita ; rostro arcuato sat gracili, prothoiace vix lon- 

 giori, utiinque sat fortiter 2-sulcato, sulcis apicem versus 

 evauescentibus, parte apicali sat fortiter punctulata ; antennis 

 sat nitidis, rostri vix ante medium insertis, funiculi articulis 

 1-3 longitudine subsequalibus, ceteris nonnihil moniliformi- 

 bus ; prothorace vix transverse, antice angustato, sat fortiter 

 punctulato (puncturis sub squamas abditis), basi bisinuato j 

 elytris puncturis subquadratis sat magnis (in striis vix im- 

 pressis positis) instructis apice submuci'onatis leviter dehis- 

 centibus ; prosterno antice fortiter emarginato. 



[Long. 2, lat. I line (vix). 

 The silvery white scales on the elytra are condensed in vittse on 

 the alternate interstices of the rows of punctures and do not seem 

 variable ; that on the interstice next the suture commences consi- 

 derably behind the base ; the vittse seem to be variously inter- 

 rupted in different specimens, but I think this is always caused by 

 abrasion. The shape and proportions of tlie joints of the funiculus 

 are very different from those of M. variabilis in which those joints 

 are wide at the base and a little dilated to the apex while here 

 they are more turbinate, the apical 3 being almost moniliform. 

 The basal ventral segments do not present any conspicuous 

 depression. 



S. Australia ; on Casuarina ; near Port Lincoln. 



MiSOPHRICE SUBMETALLICA, Sp.nOV. 



Oblongo-ovata ; supra testacea, squamis setiformibus pallidis 

 (his in elytris sparsim seriatim dispositis) vestita ; antennis 

 (articulis basalibus 2 exceptis), rostro (hoc nonnuliis exemplis 

 apicem versus rufescenti), capite, prothorace, elytrorum sutura 

 et spatio circa scutellum, piceis (nonnuliis exemplis vix viddi- 

 vel cupreo-micantibus) ; corpore snbtus piceo, pedibus (tarsis 

 piceis exceptis), abdomineque, te.staceis ; rostro ai'cuato minus 

 valido prothorace vix longiori, supra longitudinaliter subti- 

 liter 5-carinato, carinis apicem versus evanescentibus ; an- 

 tennis sat nitidis, rostri ad medium insertis, funiculi articulis 



