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the top of the hind declivity, a pair of spots hjwer down, 4 short tufts along 

 each side, and a few less distinct spots on the dorsum ; antennae and tarsi 

 fusco-testaceous. 



Rostrum dark rufous, subparallel, slightly arched, stout, of about the 

 same length as thorax ; with an indistinct median carina, it is longitudinally 

 rugose-punctate, more finely punctate near the apex. Thorax more or 

 less abruptly contracted in front, with a pair of small apical crests, it is 

 a fifth broader than long ; the larger basal portion is closely and coarsely 

 punctured, depressed along the middle, and has a pair of short median 

 crests in front. Scutellum invi.sible, its region depressed. Elytra suboblong, 

 on a higher plane than the thorax, more than twice its length, hardlv any 

 broader than it is at the base, with somewhat oblique shoulders, moderately 

 narrowed but only subvertical behind ; they are moderately coarsely sub- 

 striate-punctate Avith slightly uneven interstices. 



Legs stout yet elongate, squamose, tibiae nearly straight, tarsi rather 

 narrow. Scape inserted at or just before the middle, flexuous, gradually 

 incrassate, attaining the front of the eye ; 2nd joint of funiculus as long as 

 the 1st, 3rd slightly longer than 4th or 5th, the terminal broader than the 

 transverse 6th ; club ovate, apparently triarticulate, basal joint largest. 



Underside piceous, with short tawny scales, closely punctured. The 

 elevated borders of the rostral canal extend to the middle of intermediate 

 coxae. Second ventral segment quite half the length of the flat basal, some- 

 times without any definite suture, 5th as long as 3rd and 4th combined, 

 truncate at apex. Metasternum deeply concave in the middle. 



Of about the same size as A. australis (2180), but differing greatly in 

 coloration, sculpture, and vestiture, and more especially in sternal structure. 



Length (rostrum exclusive), 3^-4 mm. ; breadth, 2-2^ mm. 



Mount Alfred, Ben Lomond, and Mount Earnslaw, during Febiniaiy and 

 March, 1914, at elevations varying from 2,000 ft. to 4,000 ft. Found by 

 Mr. T. Hall amongst dead leaves on the ground. The description has been 

 derived from a clean, perfectly fresh example ; most of the others are 

 smeared ^vith sappy matter, and therefore appear much less brightly 

 coloured and indistinctly marked, but the sternal structure is constant. 



3942. Acalles nodigerus sp. nov. 



Convex, rufo-piceous, antennae and tarsi fusco-rufous ; covered Avith 

 small, fulvescent, depressed, and suberect but not elongate squamae on 

 the elevated parts. 



Rostiiim about as long as thorax, stout, somewhat mediallv narrowed, 

 rufescent, bare and finely punctate near the extremity. Head impressed 

 between the eyes. Thorax a third broader than long,' somewhat abruptly 

 contracted in front, bicristate there ; the larger basal portion closelv but 

 not coarsely punctured, depressed and with an indistinct carina along the 

 middle, there is a nodosity at each side, and on the front a median pair of 

 squamose ones. Elytra .subcordate, cf)nvex, with .suboblique squamose 

 shoulders, slightly broader at the base than the thorax, more than twice 

 its length, rather gradually narrowed and subvertical behind, their sides 

 uneven ; the dor.sum with series of coarse, rather close, subquadrate punc- 

 tures, these become finer behind ; 3rd interstices with 4 unequal, squamose 

 nodosities, the 5th less distinctly trinodose. Femora grooved, the anterior 

 angulate below. 



