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with the head and rostrum elongate pear-shaped. Elytra much 

 wider than prothorax at base, but not much wider than across its 

 middle, parallel-sided to near apex, interstices very narrow. 

 Abdomen a little longer than meso- and metasternum combined. 

 Length to eyes 2^, rostrum J; width | mm. 

 //o6. — Galston, N.S.W. 



MiCROCOSSONUS PAXDANI, n.sp. 



Subconvex. Dull red, antennne and under side of head paler. 

 Legs with feeble scattered pubescence. Head both above and 

 below feebly transversely strigose; rostrum with shallow 

 punctures; prothorax with shallow, almost regular punctures. 

 Elytra striate-punctate, the punctures large, shallow, approximate; 

 under surface with scattered large shallow punctures, and minutely 

 irregularly transversely or obliquely strigose; femora feebly 

 .strigose. 



Scape feebly curved, slightly longei" than the rest of antennje; 

 1st joint of funicle longer than 2nd-3rd combined. Prothorax 

 feebly constricted near ape.x, which is decidedly narrower than 

 l)ase, Ijase very fee]:»ly trisinuate. Elytra feebly and equally 

 diminishing to apical third. Length to eyes 1^, rostrum h (vix); 

 width f mm. 



//ab. — Tweed and Richmond Rivers, X.8.AV. 



Between decaying portions of the trunks and in old nuts of 

 Paiulanu.H up. The species is moderately common and I have 

 taken both larviXi and pupye, specimens of which are now in the 

 collection of the Department of Agriculture of New South Wales. 



Stereoborus laporte.e, n.sp. 



Cylindrical, shining, glabrous. Black or piceous-black, or piceous- 

 brown. Head, rostrum and prothorax densely punctate; elytra 

 punctatestriate, the punctui'es large, subquadrate, interstices 

 convex, very sparsely punctate; under surface sparsely, sides of 

 sterna more densely punctate. 



Head broad; eyes indistinct; rostrum very broad, not much 

 longer than wide, feebly decreasing to apex, a feeble impression 



