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rough, and covered with sharp tubercles placed in rather irregular 

 rows. There are patches of brown scales on the elytra which 

 give them a mottled appearance. 



25. — SCLERORINDS HOWITTII. 



Oblongo-ellipticus niger fusco-squamosus, thorace rugoso intri- 

 cate subobliterate tuberculato linea dorsali subcinerea, 

 elytris subobliterate punctatis seriatim remote tuberculatis 

 tuberculis parvis subdepressis subelongatis apice dehiscenti- 

 bus lateribus cinereo-squamosis. 



Long. 7| lin., lat. 2| lin. 



Hab. Victoria. 



This species comes nearest to 8. ohliteratus, also a Victorian 

 insect. It differs from it in being more densely clothed with 

 scales, in having the thorax more rugose and deeply sculptured, 

 and in having the medial line distinct. The elytra differ in 

 having the tubercles distant, and not in low continuous lines, as 

 is the case on the basal portion of the elytra in S. ohliteratus. 

 The apex, also, is not prolonged and recurved, as in the last 

 named insect. 



26. — SCLEROEINUS BuBALUS. Oliv. 



Curculio Bubalus, Oliv., Ent. V., p. 399. 

 Amycterus Bubalus, Schonh., Gen. et spec, Curcul., vol. II., p. 474. 



" Oblongo-ellipticus niger opacus sparce cinereo-squamulosus, 

 rostro supra impresso medio linea elevata notato, thorace 

 obsoletius subdisperse tuberculato lateribus acute rotundato, 

 elytris seriatim insequaliter tuberculatis apice bifurcatis." 

 Schonherr. 



Long. 6 lin., lat. 2| lin. 

 Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



This insect was described by Olivier, in the year 1807, as an 

 inhabitant of the East Indies. The female differs from the male 

 in having the tubercles on the thorax denser and larger, and in 

 not having the elytra dehiscent at the apex. 



