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ration, but scarcely half as broad proportionally, and with fore 

 legs rather longer and more slender in comparison than in 

 other species. 



Lcemosaccus narinus. 



Id. breviiisculus, niger, sparse albido-pilosiis ; rostro brevi, basi 

 compresso, in medio manifeste arcuato ; antennis subpieeis, clava 

 nigra, funiculo articulo primo crasso, secundo longiore, clava 

 magna funiculo vix breviore ; oculis ampliatis, supra modice ap- 

 proximatis ; prothorace creberrime punctulato, in medio longi- 

 tudiualiter sulcato, lobo scutellari elevato et nonnihil dense griseo- 

 piloso, basi profunde ample bifoveato ; scutello conspicuo, valde 

 transverso ; elytris brevibus, prothorace latioribus, sulcato-punc- 

 tatis, interstitiis planatis, granulatis ; corpore infra nigro, sat 

 dense albo-squamuloso ; pedibus breviuscuHs, anticis manifeste 

 majoribus ; tibiis anticis valde compressis, fere rectis ; tarsis rufo- 

 piceis. Long. 1| lin. 



Hah. South Australia (Port Lincoln). 



This species may be placed after L. ustulus, but it is consi- 

 derably stouter, with the anterior tibiae strongly compressed, 

 and not curved, except at the base. 



Lcemosaccus cryptonyx. 



L. suboblongus, niger, maculatim flavo-pilosus ; rostro breviusculo, 

 recto, subremote punctulato ; antennis testaceo-ferrugineis, funi- 

 culo articulo prima crassiusculo, clava nigricante ; oculis supra 

 subapproximatis ; prothorace confertim punctulato, sexmaculato, 

 macuHs ahquando plus minusve contiguis ; scutello triangulari ; 

 elytris prothorace paulo latioribus, paralleUs, profunde striato- 

 punctatis, interstitiis convexis, tenuiter granulatis, macula basali, 

 fasciaque postica indistincte ornatis ; pedibus brevibus, testaceo- 

 ferrugineis, femoribus, apice excepto, nigricantibus ; tibiis brevis- 

 simis, compressis; tarsis articulo ultimo minuto. Long. 1^- 

 1| lin. 



Hah. King George's Sound. 



A small species, differentiated from all others known to me 

 by its minute claw-joint lying deep in the fissure of the two 

 lobes of the preceding one. The coloration varies according 

 to the amount of hairiness ; and this depends chiefly, perhaps, 

 as is frequently the case in other instances, on the freshness 

 of the individual. 



Melahterius vinosus. 

 M. ovalis, squamosus ; capite piceo, fronte valde convexo, crebre 

 punctulato ; rostro tenui, elongato, ferrugineo, basi subconfertim 

 punctulato ; antennis pallide ferrugineis ; clava breviter ovata, 

 acuminata; prothorace longitudine latitudini sequali, utrinque 

 rotundato, nigro, reticulato-punctato, punctis oblongis, squami- 



