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with a narrow median carina, readily traceable throughout, but 

 normally quite covered by scales ; sublateral sulci slightly curved, 

 apparently closed at both ends; scrobes densely clothed, except in 

 front. Antenn;je not very thin; tirst joint of funicle about once and 

 one half the length of second. Froth orax along middle as long as 

 wide, but longer at sides; vermiculate-tuberculate; with a rather 

 large impression in middle near apex. Elytra considerably wider 

 than prothorax, almost parallel-sided from shoulders to near apex, 

 with rows of large but partially concealed punctures ; third and 

 fifth interstice with distinct and usually conical tubercles; each 

 shoulder with a very strong conical tubercle. Length 11-15 mill. 

 Hab. : Queensland : Rockhampton (Belgian Museum). 



The six specimens before me are all marked as having been in 

 Uastelneau's collection, and it is probably at least forty years since 

 they were taken. The clothing now is mostly of a dingy white or 

 whitish gi'ey on the under surface and sides, and of a pale muddy 

 brown on the upper surface. On fresh specimens it is probably 

 different, but 1 have not hesitated to describe the species as it can 

 be readily identified from its sculpture. The tubercles (which appear 

 to be seldom alike on both elytra) are often more or less reddish at 

 their tips. On each elytron the row on the third interstice consists 

 of from seven to ten (usually eight), of which the largest (the end) 

 one is at the summit of the posterior declivity, and is of a length 

 that would reach from its base to the suture. On the fifth interstice 

 the tubercles vary in number from seven to twelve (usually nine), 

 and are usually larger than those on the fifth, but their largest one 

 is smaller than the end one of the fifth; this row also terminates 

 some distance beyond the row on the third. The tubercle on the 

 shoulder is the largest of all and is acutely conical. 



The female dillers from the male in being larger, the elytra wider 

 and more convex, tubercles smaller, and many of them more or 

 less rounded instead of conical. 



In the table given in Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1906, p. 314, this 

 species should be placed next to elegans, but the sharp tubercle on 

 the shoulder is the only one on its interstice, instead of being the 

 largest ot a series. The prothorax is also longer. In some respects 

 it is close to the description of furfuracea but the rostrum in 

 carinate, the antennae are not very slender, and the first joint of 

 the funicle is longer than the second. 



PERIPAGIS Pascoe. 



Penpagfw (1870) was referred by Pascoe to the Cyiindrorhinides 

 as also was Catastygnus (1871). In tabulating them he distinguished 



