75^' 



The type was from « Australia »; two of the Museum specimens 

 arc from Sydney, the others are without exact locahty labels. 



GATASTYGNUS Pascoe. 

 I refer all the species of this genus to Peripagis; see above notes. 



545. LIPOTHYREA CHLORIS Pasc. 



Two specimens belonging to the Museum from Port-Denison 

 (I have others from the same locality) have the sides of the rostrum 

 smooth and highly polished, and the rostrum itself as in Synap- 

 tomyx ovatiis; except that it is stouter. The specimens agree with 

 the description of clUoris, but thinking it remarkable that Pascoe 

 should have omitted to notice the peculiar sides of the rostrum, if 

 these specimens really were chloris, I wrote for information as to 

 the type, and M. Gilbert-J. Arrow of the British Museum kindly 

 wrote me : « I find that the type oi Lipothyrea chioris Pasc. has the 

 rostrum glabrous at the sides exactly as in !>ynaptonyx ovatiis. » 

 Synapto}iyx was referred to the 'ianyrhynchides; Lipothyrea to the 

 Leptopsides ; I think the two genera belong to but one subfamily, 

 but they are readily distinguished by the claws, those oi Lipothyrea 

 being free, whilst in Synaptoniyx they are soldered together, except 

 at the tip. 



Other genera having the rostrum somewhat similar are Atmesia 

 and Matesia (referred to the Otiorynchides), Xyncea (referred to the 

 Tanyrhynchides), and Rhinaria and Pelororhinus (referred to the 

 Aterpides). Eaphalia (unknown to me) evidenty also has the ros- 

 trum somewhat similar; and I have specimens with a somewhat 

 similar rostrum belonging to an unnamed genus near Polyphrades. 



546. LIPOTHYREA ARROWI n. sp. 



Black; antennae (club excepted) and legs more or less red. Den- 

 sely clothed with greyish or whitish scales, sometimes faintly 

 tinged with blue or green, especially on the under-surface. Protho- 

 rax usually with three vaguely defined dark stripes; elytra with 

 irregular dark stripes, sometimes broken up into spots. Elytra with 

 rather dense and long sub-erect sette, similar in colour to the scales 

 amongst which they are placed ; elsewhere the seta3 are shorter 

 and much less conspicuous. 



Rostrum slightly longer than prothorax, rather thin, strongly 

 curved, rather suddenly bent downwards at middle; sides compres- 

 sed, pohshed, and with minute punctures; with a narrow but nor- 



