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Cri/2^torhynchides rather than amongst the allies of Chcetectetorns. 

 Its connection with Acalles, however, is certainly very remote. 



I.MALiTHUS PATKLLA Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No.5482. 



Black, antennse dull reddish-brown. Densely clothed with 

 stout, muddy-brown scales, paler and smaller on under than on 

 upper surface. 



Punctures everywhere concealed, but apparently dense. 

 Rostrum, slightly shorter than prothorax, sides lightly incurved 

 to middle. Frolhorax, depressed in middle, margins strongly 

 raised and semicircular, each distinctly notched in middle. 

 Elytra flattened along middle; 5th interstice largely and suddenly 

 raised and somewhat curved, the raised portion becoming sub- 

 tuberculate posteriorly and terminated at apical fourth, 7th 

 interstice slightly raised and posteriorly with a number of rather 

 large fasciculate tubercles, 9th interstice curved and slightly raised. 

 Length 5|, rostrum \\\ width 3Jmm. 



y^a6.— N.S.W.: "Clarence River" (Pascoe); Q.: Wide Bay 

 (Australian and Macleay Museums). _^ 



An easily recognisable species. 



Paratituacia, n.g. 



Head rather large, feebly convex, partially concealed. Eyes 

 small, ovate, lateral, ver}^ finely faceted. Rostrum wide but not 

 very short, moderately curved. iSccvpe inserted closer to base 

 than apex of rostrum, distinctly shorter than funicle; two basal 

 joints of the latter moderately long; club elliptic ovate. Pro- 

 ihoraoi briefly subconical, base bisinuate, constriction feeble but 

 continued across summit, ocular lobes very obtuse. Scutellum 

 small. Elytra briefly cordate, base wider than prothorax and 

 each separately rounded. Pectoral canal deep and wide, termi- 

 nated between intermediate coxse. Mesosternal i-eceptacle ft-ebly 

 raised, crescent-shaped, emargination moderately transverse ; 

 cavernous. Metasternum not much shorter than the following 

 segment; episterna distinct. Basal segment of abdomen as long 

 as the two following combined, intercoxal process rather wide 



