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34. — SCLERORINUS SQUALIDUS. 



Oblongo-elHpticus niger cinereo-squamosus, rostro medio leviter 

 carinato, fronte linea media laevi, thorace subrugoso- 

 tuberculato tuberculis subdepressis subliemisphaericis seti- 

 geris setis flavi.s lateribus antice ampliato, elytris seriatim, 

 rude punctatis granulatis interstitiis seriatim tuberculatis 

 alternis elevatioribus tuberculis omnibus parvis setigeris 

 setis flavis basi conjunctim subemarginatis apice dehis- 

 centibus. 

 Mas : Ventre medio fulvo-hirto, segmento anali medio leviter 

 excavato. 



Femina : elytris latioribus tuberculis omnibus minutioribus, 

 ventre leviter fulvo-birto. 

 Long. 8 lin., lat. 3 lin. 

 Hab. Lambing Flat. 



The male and female differ much in appearance in this 

 species, the former being rougher and much less regularly sculp- 

 tured than the latter. The rostrum is slightly but broadly cari- 

 nated in the middle. The forehead has a smooth line in the 

 centre, while the top of the head on each side is covered with 

 light coloured scales. The thorax is broad, slightly rugose, 

 covered with depressed hemispherical tubercles, each having a 

 pale yellow seta, and has the sides considerably ampliated rather 

 in front of the middle. The elytra are punctured in rows with a 

 setigerous granule to each puncture, the interstices having a 

 series of somewhat distant minute setigerous tubercles on each, 

 the alternate ones being somewhat costate. The apex of the 

 elytra is dehiscent but scarcely mucronate. 



35. — SCLERORINUS VERMICDLATUS. 



Oblongo-ellipticus ater supra vix subtus crebre squamosus, 

 rostro medio leviter carinato basi utrinque profunde punc- 

 tato, thorace subobliterate tuberculato vermiculato lateribus 

 ampliato, elytris seriatim rude punctatis gi'anulatis inter- 

 stitiis subcostatis remote tuberculatis alternis elevatioribus 



