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and longer than second. Prothorax not much wider than long, base 

 very little wider than apex; with dense, partially concealed 

 punctures. Elytra distinctly ^but not much) wider than prothorax, 

 shoulders strongly rounded, sides feebly and regularly decreasing in 

 width to near apex; with rows of large but partially concealed 

 punctures. Intercoxal process of mesostermmi feebly produced. 

 Tibice stout, strongly denticulate. Length 3 3/4-4 2/3 mill. 



Hah. : Australia (Belgian Museum, A. BoviE, and Entomological 

 Society of Berlin); Victoria : Mallee (C. French), Sea-Lake (J. -C. 

 Goudie). 



The rostrum is unusually short for Pantoreites. The elytra may 

 be entirely black, or almost entirely dull red, with a large (but more 

 or less concealed) black patcli on each side ; the femora and tarsi are 

 usually, but not always, black, the tibice are usually red; the 

 antennae are usually obscurely diluted with red. 



When alive, specimens of this species are probably more or less 

 densely covered with a brownish meal, on each side of the middle 

 from apex of prothorax to apex of elytra, so that the upper surface 

 appears conspicuously striped. But this meal becomes lost on 

 immersion in fluids, when the striped appearance is much less 

 conspicuous. The whole of the clothing on the upper surface, when 

 the meal is removed, is seen to be of a snowy whiteness, but with 

 the meal present the thinner scales or setse often appear greyish, 

 and the wider scales are also sometimes obscured by it. When the 

 meal is removed four dark nude spots with very coarse punctures 

 can be seen on the elytra, and these spots cause the white stripe on 

 each side to be twice triangularly interrupted about its middle; before 

 the meal is removed the spots can still be traced, but they are much 

 less conspicuous. The median stripe is narrower than the lateral 

 ones, and is very distinct when the meal is present, but when this 

 has been removed, it can still be traced, as the clothing of the 

 stripes is both wider and denser than on the rest of the surface. 



207. PANTOREITES LONGIROSTRIS n. sp. 



Reddish-brown; elytra, rostrum and appendages paler, but claws 

 black. Head and base of rostrum with thin, but moderately dense 

 white scales. Middle and sides of prothorax, scutellum, a stripe on 

 each side of elytra (from near base to beyond the middle), under 

 surface and legs with snowy scales. Rest of upper surface with setae 

 more or less intermixed with an ochreous meal. 



Head with dense concealed punctures ; inter-ocular fovea small 

 and normally concealed. Rostrum (for the subfamily) very long and 



