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Hab. Andai, L. M. D'Albertis. 



This is one of the few species of CurcuHonidse in which the 

 punctures of the elytra are not arranged in rows or in strise. 

 It may be placed near A. polilus. 



BALANININyE. 



Ba.la.iiiiiU!^. 



Germar, Mag. Ent. IV, p. 291. 



Vol. B. c-album, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 170. 



Hab. Fly River, L. M. D'Albertis (Waigiou , Wallace). 



138. B. tersus, n. sp. Late ovatus, niger, brunneo-squamosus , albido, 

 vel I'ufescenti-varius; rostrum modice elongatum, glabrum, extus ferru- 

 gineum , in medio basi longitudinaliter aciitnm ; antermge ferruginese , arti- 

 cnlo secando funiculi primo breviore; prothorax transversus, utrinque ro- 

 tundatus, basi parte scutellari truncatiis, levitor punctatus, squamis elon- 

 gatis albidis adpressis sparsutus; scutellum rotundatum, albido-pilosum ; 

 elytra breviuscula, striatopunctata , punctis linearibus , interstitiis planatis, 

 sutura, t'ascia pone medium obliqua, apiceque albido-, vel rufescenti-squa- 

 mosis; pedes brunnei, albido-pilosi. Long. 5 mm. (cum rostro S mm.). 



Hab. Fly River, L. M. D'Albertis. 



This species may for the present be placed near the j)rece- 

 (ling, but it is more robust, differently sculptured and coloured. 



ANTHONOMIN/E. 

 Telpliasia. 



Rostrum elongatum, filiforme; scrobes laterales. Oculi ovati. Antenna? 

 pone medium rostri insertse; funiculus articulo primo majore, secundo ob- 

 conico, cseteria transversis, gradatim latioribus; clava distincta. Prothorax 

 conicus. Elytra subdepressa. Femora incrassata, mutica; tibiae rectfe; un- 

 guiculi liberi; coxae anticae coutiguae, intermedise et posticee approximatae. 

 Abdomen segmentis tertio quartoque ad latera arcuatis, sutura prima fere 

 obsoleta. 



The fades of this genus is that of Erirhinus rather than of 

 Anthonomus to which, on account of the presence of a pygi- 

 dium I have referred it. It has moreover a remarkable resem- 

 blaiico to the Phihjijtinc TiicJiiosnnvi (/r/icilirosfris , which has a 



