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moderately stout, curved at base. Antetince short, stout; scape ^ery 

 short and stout, scarcely half the length of funicle, inserted in 

 middle of rostrum or nearer the base than apex, apparently termin- 

 ating before eye; two basal joints of funicle moderately elongate, 

 the second sometimes short; club short, ovate, free. Prothorax 

 either transverse or slightly longer than wide, depressed, apex 

 produced and more than half the width of base, base strongly 

 bisinuate; constriction deep, produced on to disc and continued 

 near sides almost to base, middle more or less excavated along the 

 median line. SciUellum small. Elytra considerably or not much 

 wider than, and on a level with prothorax, elongate-subcordate, 

 base stronyly trisinuate, shoulders produced, posterior declivity 

 rounded and not at all abrupt. Pectoral canal deep and wide, 

 terminated between four front coxse. Mesosternal receptacle rather 

 large, rising in front, emargination strongly transverse ; cavernous. 

 Melastcrnum large, longer than first abdominal segment, strongly 

 transversely impressed on each side in front; episterna moderately 

 large. Abdomen large, sutures distinct; two basal segments large, 

 the first scarcely longer than second, incurved to apex, intercoxal 

 process rounded, marked with a semicircular row of fovese or very 

 large round punctures ; third and fourth large, their combined 

 length distinctly more than that of fith and slightly more than that 

 of second. Legs moderately long; femora stout or moderately stout, 

 feebly or not all grooved, posterior strongly dentate or all edentate, 

 posterior terminating near apex of abdomen; tibia? compressed, 

 arcuate at base, feebly bisinuate beneath ; tarsi narrow, third but 

 little wider than second, deeply bilobed, claw-joint elongate, feebly 

 setose, claws diverging at an angle of about 45". Depressed, sub- 

 elliptic, punctate, squamose, winged. 



The genus must be close to Apries but differs from M. Pascoe's 

 description of that genus (1) in having the claw joint glabrous 

 except for a few indistinct setae, elytra scarcely convex and the 

 rostrum not transversely sulcate. It may be easily recognised 

 amongst the Australian allies of CJiaHecletorus by the large size of 

 metasternum. The scape is very short and if drawn outatrightangles 

 to the rostrum appears as if its apex would terminate considerably 

 before the eye, but when lying in its scrobe it can be seen to touch 

 the eye. The basal foveas of the abdomen and the impressions of 

 the metasternum are more or less concealed, but on removing the 

 scales they are seen to be very large. The variations that occur in 

 the femora are remarkable. In addition to the species described 

 below four others are known to me. 



(1) Jouru. Liuu. Soc. 1871, p. 196. 



