BY EUSTACE W. FERGUSON. 403 



and becomiug larger posteriorly; iiitra-luiracral tubercle on seventh vei-y slightly 

 longer than the gi-anules on ba.sal portion of interstice. 



Venter i'eebly depressed at base with intermediate segTnents comparatively 

 short; the apical segment rather coarsely punctured, the whole with pale de- 

 cumbent setae. Legs simple. 



?. Similar, elytra wider, more rounded, with apex more produced; granules 

 smaller, less distinct. Venter strongly convex. 



Dimensiotts : d. 11 x 4 mm. ; ?. 12 x 5 mm. 



Hah. — We-stern Australia: King George Sound. 



Closely allied to P. conveximsculus Macl., the present species may be dis- 

 tinguished by the smaller sn|iraorbital crests, which are hardly more than granules, 

 and are set slightly anterior to the frontal granules so that the head presents a 

 transverse row of 4 griuiules across the front. The postero-lateral tubercle of 

 the prothorax is also definitely develoiied. 



The median lobe of the submentnm is in this species very broad and but 

 little advanced, so that from some positions the emargination appears straight. 



The above description was taken from the types in the Australian Museum. 



A X .^ S C O P T E S. 



Pascoe, .Journ. Liiiu. Soc, xii., 1873, j). 7. 



Genotype — A. muricatun Fasc. 



Head concave in front; not distinctly separated from upper surface of ros- 

 trum; supraorliital tubercles jjresent. Rostrum with ujiijer surface liardlv ex- 

 cavate, somewhat concave at base; lateral margins feebly angulate, hardly de- 

 finitely tuljerculato anteriorly; basal tubercles present; clyiieal plate exserted. 

 Scrobes sliort, commencing hardly farther forward than the middle of the ros- 

 trum and extending to the inferior border of the eye. Antennae with scape 

 moderately long. Eyes round, prominent, coarsely faceted. Prothorax angulate 

 or tubercuiate on each side; anterior margin produced above, without ocular 

 lobes; disc with submedian tubercles separating median and sublateral areas. 

 Elytra oval; ba.se contained between the projecting ends of the third interstices. 

 Ventral surface flattened. Legs simple; tarsi short. 



The type species was examined at the British Museum, and a detailed des- 

 cription made. I now add two new species to the genus, one of which has some- 

 times been identified as Pascoe's species. All three species are from Western 

 Australia. 



In his table of the long-scaped Ami/rtfrlnaf (Inc. cit., p. 21) Pascoe placed 

 Anascoptef! with Poh/creta, distinguisliing both from Hi/borrhi/nchtis by the 

 naiTow rostrum. 



I do not think however that Poh/creta is really related to Avascopten. The 

 genus is hardly separalde from EniKithus which was placed by Pa.scoe among 

 the short-scaped Ami/cteriuae (Euomides), and both genera seem more closely 

 allied to Oditesus. 



Further consideration of Pnh/creta is therefore defen-ed for the present. 



Anascoptes appeai-s to me more nearly allied to Hyhorrhynehus than to the 

 Euomides, the relation of the base of the elytra to the prothorax being the same 

 in the two genera. 



Anascoptes is however separated from the other tlu'ee genera of the group 

 by the ui)per surface of the rostrum not being deeply excavate, though it may 

 be shallowly concave, particularly l)etween the basal tubercles. In the type 

 species(.l. miiricatm Pasc.) these basal tubercles are widely separated and 



