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articulobasali funiculi secundo duplo longiore; prothorace 

 transverso, antice tubulato, deinde utrinque rotundato, 

 supra granulate, lateraliter subvittato ; scutello sub- 

 quadrato ; elytris brevibus, medio valde convexis, haud 

 fasciculatis vel cristatis, fortiter sulcatis, sulcis subfove- 

 atis, interstitiis carinatis, ad basin dentato-tuberculatis, 

 reliquis minus vel fere obsolete tuberculatis, confuse 

 albo-maculatis ; corpore infra pedibusque sparse albo- 

 squamosis. 



Long. 5 lin. 



Hah. — Queensland. 



A short species like 0. Icetus, Saund. and Jek., but 

 neither crested nor fasciculate, and otherwise very 

 difierent. 



ERIRHININ^. 



Desiantha, n. g. 



Rostrum validiusculum, cylindricum, parum arcuatum, 

 supra striolatum, apice paulo latiore; scrohes laterales, 

 terminales, infra oculos evanescentes. Oculi ovati. 

 8capus sensim clavatus, oculum impingens ; juniculus 

 7-articulatus, articulis longiusculis, duobus basalibus 

 longioribus ; clava oblongo-ovata, distincta. Prothora.c 

 rotundatus, subdepressus. Scutellum parvum, rotunda- 

 turn. Elytra oblonga, basi incurvata. Pedes mediocres, 

 postici longiores; femora incrassata, mutica; tibice 

 flexuosEe, apice unco horizontali armatse; tarsi angusti, 

 articulis tribus basalibus brevibus, ultimo elongate ; un- 

 guiculi divaricati. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus 

 ampliatis, medio depressis. 



This genus is akin to Aoplocnemis, Schon., but has 

 terminal scrobes not uniting beneath, and a claw-joint 

 as long as the three preceding joints together; the 

 latter are narrow, and of nearly equal breadth throughout. 

 The rostral striolas, of which there are six, are crossed at 

 regular intervals by slender grayish setulae. 



Desiantha silacea. 



D. oblonga, silacea, subtilissime et remote griseo- 

 squamulosa, setulis nigris dispersis ; rostro subnitido ; 

 clava antennarum fusca ; prothorace oblongo, confertim 

 punctate ; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis subquadratis, 



