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fig. 21, under the name of Stenocere Damier, are doubtless also Nes- 

 siarce. Nessiara centralis, Pasc, is found in the Moluccas, as well 

 as in Borneo. 



Basiteopis [Anthribidse]. 

 Jekel, Ins. Saundersiana, p. 90. 



Basitropis solitarius. 



B. elongato-subcylindricus, fusco-tomentosus ; capita prothoraceque ob- 

 scure gi'iseo-variis ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis altemis elevatis, 

 in-egulariter albo-maculatis. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



Elongate, subcj'lindrical, with a short dark broTVTi tomentum, slightly 

 varied with greyish-white ; head shortly ovate, eyes rather large ; pro- 

 thorax a little longer than wide, varied anteriorly and at the sides 

 with grejnsh ; scutellum minute ; elytra pimctate-striate, the alternate 

 interstices raised and spotted with white, the spots a little before, as 

 well as behind the middle, elongate, forming an indistinct, oblique, 

 band-like mark; antennae dark brown ; legs paler, varied with greyish ; 

 body beneath grejdsh-brown. Length 3 lines. 



This species, together with B. peregrimis and B. mgratus from 

 Port Essington, described by me in a recent number of the ' Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History ' (Dec. 1859, pp. 432, 433), (fee, 

 differ from B. nitidicutis, Jekel, the type of the genus, in their nar- 

 rower and more elongate form, and their brown, not ashy, colour. 



DrNORHOPALA [CurcuUonidae]. 



Head small, abruptly contracted below the eyes into a short rostrum. 

 Eyes large, roimd, prominent. Antennae short, straight, arising close to 

 the eyes in a cavity formed between them and a short thick process, 

 twelve-jointed, the first subpyriform, elongate, the second shorter, sub- 

 cylindrical, the third to the eighth slender, gradually diminishing in 

 length, the last four forming an ovate compact club. Prothorax sub- 

 triangidar, lobed at the base, narrow anteriorly, irregular above. Elytra 

 large, much wider than the prothorax at the base, very irregidar and 

 spinous. Anterior and intermediate legs moderate, the femora clavate 

 and unidentate beneath, each tibia with a single curved spur ; the 

 posterior longer, their femora slender at the base, abruptly clavate at 

 the apex, and armed with a strong tooth, their tibiae strongly com- 

 pressed and curved ; the tarsi of all short, the penultimate joints 

 broadly lobed ; claws toothed beneath ; anterior coxae approximate, 

 intermediate and posterior widely apart. Meso- and metasterna very 



The affinity of this genus is no doubt with Tachygonus, and judging 

 from its posterior legs, it is probably also saltatorial. As the import- 



