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conspicuous to the naked eye, looking like two horns. No other 

 species that I have seen approaches this one in this respect. 

 W. Australia ; Yilgarn ; sent to me by Mr. C. French. 



CISTELIDiE. 

 Apbllatus MASTERSi, Macl. 



I have examined the type of this insect, and have no doubt 

 whatever of its being the female of A. palpalis, Macl. 



CURCULIONID.^ (BRACHYDERIN.E). 

 Prypnus (?) SQUAMOSUs, sp.nov. 



Oblongus (mas), magis latns (fern.) ; niger squamis, supra 

 griseis vel albidis (nonnuUis fuscis maculatim intermixtis), 

 subtus albidis nonnullis fulvis intermixtis, vestitus ; breviter 

 inconspicue fulvo-setosus ; rostro capite angustiori longiori, 

 longitudinaliter bisulcato, supra sat fortiter arcuato ; oculis 

 sat magnis, modice convexis ; antennis modicis, scapo 

 oculorum marginem posticum vix attingenti; prothorace 

 transverso, antice posticeque truncate, crebre tuberculato- 

 ruguloso, canaliculato, margine antico sub oculos ciliato ; 

 elytris ad apicem singulatim leviter acuminatis, punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis subinsequalibus alternis leviter alternis 

 fortiter convexis, interstitio 3° ad basin antrorsum promiuente, 

 humeris reflexis subprominulis, sutura postice cariniformi. 



[Long. 5-6, lat. l|-2,2, lines. 

 In freshly coloured examples, the head and rostrum are densely 

 clothed with nearly white scales, in which a few of a pale fuscous 

 colour are intermingled (sometimes in small patches), the rest of 

 the upper surface being densely clothed with scales of an obscure 

 ashen hue, much interrupted by patches of fuscous scales which 

 form on the prothorax an ill-defined central band and some small 

 lateral spots, and on the elytra more or less numerous ill-defined 

 and small spots ; the most conspicuous marking is the dark central 

 band of the prothorax ; the general aspect is that of a dull ashy- 

 coloured insect, with the head and rostrum almost white, or at any 



