HY AinilUK M. LKA. 605 



Looks much like a small specimen of F. sirinfi. Tlie rostral 

 carinaj can be seen distinctly only between the antenna'. 



PSEUDOMETYRUS PEKSIMILIS, n.Sp. 



$. Piceous, rostrum and antenna? red; rostrum opaque. 

 Moderately densely clothed with dingy ochreous-brown scales, 

 paler and denser on sterna and legs than elsewhere. Prothorax 

 with six fascicles, each elytron with about six moderately distinct 

 ones. 



Rostrum feebly curved, rather thin, parallel- sided (or almost 

 so) from base to apex. Scape rather stout, inserted two-fifths 

 from apex. Prothorax feebly punctate, subtuberculate beneath 

 fascicles. Elytra wider than and less than thrice the length of 

 prothorax; striate-punctate, striae feeble, punctures rather large, 

 round, each containing a scale; interstices not alternately raised, 

 the 3rd and 5th tuberculate beneath fascicles. Under surface 

 and legs rather less densely punctate than usual. Femora rather 

 strongly dentate, the posterior less strongly than the others. 

 Length 4 J, rostrum 1; width 2imm. 



Hah. — New South Wales(Macleay Museum). 



This and the following species are very closely allied, but they 

 must be regarded as distinct, not only on account of the sides<of 

 rostrum and punctures, but because in this species the eyes are 

 smaller and less rounded. 



PSEUDOMETYRUS VICARIUS, n.Sp. 



(J. Piceous-red; rostrum and antennse red; rostrum opaque. 

 Moderately densely clothed with ochreous-brown scales, paler on 

 prothorax and apex of elytra than on the rest of elytra; scales of 

 under surface and legs similar to those of prothorax. Prothorax 

 with six fascicles, of which the two apical are scarcel}' traceable; 

 each elytron with about six moderately distinct fascicles. 



Eye!<. rather larger and more convex than usual. Rostrum 

 feebly curved, rather suddenly decreasing from base to antennae, 

 moderately coarsely punctate towards apex, punctures concealed 

 behind antennre. Scape inserted two-fifths from apex. l*ro- 



