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oculos profunde foveato ; rostro crasso, sulco lateral! pro- 

 fundo ; scapo sensim incrassato ; prothorace transverso^ 

 medio versus apicem excavato, supra irregulariter tuber- 

 culato-corrugato ; scutello profunde site ; ely tris lateribus 

 subparallelisj seriatim lineato-punctatis, interstitiis inter- 

 rupte subcarinatis, postice singulatim tuberculis tribus 

 instructis ; corpore infra pedibusque griseo-variis ; seg- 

 mentis 3-4 brevissimis. 



Long. 4^ lin. 



Hab. — Queensland. 



Chaodius, n. g. 



A Polyphrade differt coxis anticis hand contiguis at 

 tar sis articulo ultimo uni-unguiculato. 



The first character is, with the exception o^ Leptostethus , 

 Waterh.j peculiar to this genus of all the Oxyopthalmous 

 subfamilies ; the other character is found in EssoUthna 

 (Pascoe, Proc. Lin. Soc. Zool. 1870, vol. x. p. 457), and 

 in an allied genus not yet published. 



Chaodius nigrescens. 



C. sub-ovatus, paulo depressus, obscure fuscus, sat dense 

 squamulosus, squamulis griseis rarissimis maculatus; 

 fronte linea impressa notata; rostro capite breviore, supra 

 planato ; antennis crassis, clava angusta, vix libera ; oculis 

 late ovatis, infra paulo acuminatis : prothorace transverse, 

 utrinque valde rotundato, basi apiceque latitudine sequali- 

 bus, supra reticulato-rugoso ; scutello carente; elytris 

 breviusculis, lateribus subparellelis, apicem versus sat 

 subito rotundatis, apice seipso paulo producto et rotun- 

 dato, striato-punctatis, punctis approximatis, squamigeris, 

 interstitiis latis, modice convexis ; corpore infra omnino, 

 pedibus plagiatim, griseo-squamulosis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. — Western Australia. 



CYLINDEORHININ^. 



Peeipagis, n. g. 



Rostrum validum, capite fere duplo longius, supra 

 carinatum, apice triangulari-plagiatum ; scrobes profundse. 



