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concave between the prominent coxse. MetasteriiiDii excessively 

 short, scarcely exceeding in length the space between the widely- 

 separated coxoB. Abdomen vevy IsiVge, the first segment deeply emar- 

 ginate at the middle behind, the suture towards each side nearly 

 straight, third and fourth segments quite linear, their sutures straight 

 and deep, both sunk below the level of the others. Ejnj^leura so 

 narrow as to be almost invisible. Mentiim transverse. Faljn not 

 exposed. 



The scrobes of themselves serve to distinguish this from all the 

 other genera of the Ehyparosomidse. 



2137. A. COnicus, ii-s. Body widest behind, almost uninter- 

 ruptedly narrowed to the eyes, nearly flat above, but with the 

 scutellar region depressed ; sparingly clothed with yellowish decum- 

 bent scales, and coarse pallid setae, these latter form a pair of crests 

 on the front of the thorax, and a sort of irregular fringe from that 

 point along each side to beyond the middle of each elytron, and 

 again along the sides of the posterior declivity ; on the tibiae they 

 are extremely coarse, so as to appear like teeth or protuberances ; 

 derm pitchy-brown or black, tarsi and antennae ferruginous. 



Bostrum as long as thorax, strongly arched, its nude anterior 

 portion punctate, the back part with a central carina covered up be- 

 hind by a squamose ridge, and with an elongate crest at each side 

 between the scrobe and eye. Tliorax, as seen from above, narrowed 

 towards the apex, but near the middle of each side there is a seti- 

 form projection beyond which the narrowing becomes more marked 

 towards the apical crests ; the sculpture consists of irregular cavities 

 or punctures, with rugose and near the front almost tuberculate inter- 

 stices, the middle of the base angularly depressed. Eli/tra with, on 

 each, two regular rows, about seven in each, of coarse punctures, the 

 one nearest the scutellar region an elongate cavity rather than a punc- 

 ture, there are some other punctures near the sides and a few minute 

 black tubercles ; behind, the punctures are sip.aller with indications 

 of stria? ; the setiform ridges proceeding from the shoulders are 

 curved inwardly, and end near the middle, though distant from the 

 suture, in an almost isolated elevation, the enclosed space seems 

 depressed ; two elevations on each side are larger than any others 

 there, whilst the summit and sides of the apical portion are more or 

 less uneven wath setiform tufts or ridges. 



Length (rost. excL), 3-^-; breadth. If lines. 



This interesting creature was discovered by Mr. H. Suter at 

 Forty-mile Bush. 



Clypeorhynchus. 



Nov. gen. 



{Sliarp ; Ent. Man. Mmj., vol. xx., p. 26.) 



Bostrunmot quite so long asprothorax, moderately stout, between 



quadrate and cylindric, antenncB inserted so as to leave one-third ol' 



the length of the rostrum in front of their insertion ; the anterior 



portion of the rostrum separated by a deep irregular suture from the 



