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head and rostrum, this latter being destitute of pterygia, while the head is much 
narrowed, and the eyes placed more on its upper face. The truncature of the 
posterior tibize is much the same as in Protophormus, though the truncate surface 
is scarcely so minute. It should be remarked that, though the rostrum is not ex- 
panded at the apex, yet the scrobes are quite visible from the front ; they are very 
deep at the insertion of the antennz, but very short and very indefinite behind. 
The structure of the antennz, and indeed all the other characters, seem nearly the 
same as in Protophormus. 
Nonnotus griseolus, n. sp.—Angustulus, squamulis pallide griseis vestitus, 
antennis tarsisque rufis, tibiis rufo-obscuris; prothorace subtransverso lateribus 
rotundatis. Long. 5 m.m. (Plate xm., fig. 8.) 
Antennz rather long, second joint longer than the third, eighth hardly so 
long as broad, club large, elongate oval; rostrum punctate, the squamosity not 
so dense as on the elytra; eyes large, but not at all convex; thorax evidently 
broader than long, even, without impressions or rugosities, the sides a good deal 
rounded, more narrowed in front than behind, the surface rather closely punctate, 
but the punctuation almost concealed by the pallid squamosity ; scutellum rather 
small; elytra rather densely and uniformly covered with very pallid scales, and 
bearing minute pallid hairs, very finely striate. 
Otago. Professor Hutton; a single example. 
Epitimerrs, Pascoe. 
Corpus robustum, dense squamosum, setosum. Rostrum breve crassum; 
scrobes perbreves. Antenne elongate scapo gracile, prothoracis marginem attin- 
gente. Prothorax latiusculus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Corbellis posterioribus 
leyiter cavernosis. 
There can be no doubt as to the position of this genus, which should be 
between Protophormus and Platyomida: it is very different from the former 
genus in appearance, and differs in numerous details, the eyes are more pointed 
below, the rostrum thicker and more quadrate, and the hind coxe extremely 
widely separated; the scrobes are very short and their posterior part excessively 
vague, as in Protophormus, but nevertheless taking a different direction, being, in 
fact, directed towards the lower part of the front of the eye, not to the under- 
surface of the head; the posterior corbels are very evidently, though not broadly, 
cavernous ; the short rostrum and obsolete scrobes readily distinguish the genus 
from Platyomida; there is no trace of ocular lobes, and the short prosternum is 
but little emarginate in front; the metasternum is excessively short, and the 
intercoxal process of the first ventral segment extremely broad, quite truncate in 
front ; the second ventral segment much shorter than the first; the facies is quite 
sunilar to that of Brachyolus, which, however, has a well-marked ocular lobe. 
