420 Mr.F. P. Pascoe on some new Genera of Curculionide. 
valde rotundata, apicem versus subattenuata, apice ipso dehiscentia. 
Pedes mediocres, antici longiores; femoribus medio incrassatis ; tebiis 
2 to} Die b) 
rectis, muticis, anticis intus apice emarginatis ; tarsis brevibus, articulo 
penultimo bilobo; wnguiculis basi connatis. Abdomen segmento primo 
breviusculo. Processus interfemoralis angustus, antice angulatus. 
to} , 
Evidently nearly allied to Synaptonyx, Waterh., but without 
ocular lobes, with two unusually short basal joints to the funicle, 
and the interfemoral process narrow and angulated anteriorly. Mr. 
Waterhouse says that the scape does not extend to the eye; but this 
is probably an error, as M. Lacordaire places it with Tanyrhynchine. 
I am indebted to Mr. Odewahn for my example. 
AXynea saginata, (Pl. XVII. fig. 2.) 
X. breviter ovata, picea, sparse setosa, squamis albidis dense tecta; rostro 
apicem versus carinato, antice squamoso, infra piceo; capite parvo, im- 
punctato; prothorace vage punctato; elytris subseriatim punctatis, 
punctis subremotis, apicibus breviter acuminatis; corpore infra pedi- 
busque albido-squamosis, Long. 2 lin, 
Hab, South Australia. 
SIMALLUS. 
Caput exsertum. Rostrum brevissimum, crassum, medio canaliculatum, 
apicem versus triangulariter emarginatum; scrobe arcuata, laterali, 
versus oculos latiori. Oculi mediocres, rotundati. Antenne subgraciles, 
in medio rostri insertée ; scapo thorace attingente; funiculo 6-articulato, 
art. duobus basalibus reliquis paulo longioribus, totis obconicis ; elava 
elongato-ovata. Prothorax transversus, apice angustior, postice fere 
truncatus, pone oculos lobatus. Seutellwm minutum, depressum. Elytra 
ovata, humeris obsoletis. Czetera ut in Episomo, sed corbulis posticis 
apertis. 
This genus appears to be closely allied to Episomus, notwithstand- 
ing its lobed prothorax ; the lobe, however, does not seem to inter- 
fere with the eye, and on this account is probably of less importance 
than it otherwise would have been. 
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Simallus suleicollis. (Pl. XVII. fig. 8.) 
S. ovatus, niger, squamis minutis griseis densissime tectus, lateribus fuscis 
et infra albo-argenteo vittatis; capite rostroque omnino squamosis, 
vage punctatis, illo inter oculos bilobo, hoc in medio profunde canali- 
culato ; spatio triangulari nigro, nitido, marginibus ciliatis; antennis 
totis griseo-squamosis ; prothorace dorso reticulato-impresso, medio 
sulcato ; elytris basi prothorace vix latioribus, striato-punctatis, punctis 
valde determinatis, nigris, interstitiis latis, vix elevatis, sparse setulosis, 
setulis adpressis: postice gibbosis, apicem versus incurvatis, dein com- 
