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the first and second rami of the antenne results from the elongate 
form of the third joint. 
W. Australia; King George’s Sound; taken by Mr. E. 
Meyrick. 
E. perthensis, sp. nov. Mas. Picea ; minus nitida; confertim sub- 
tiliter punctulata; pube fulva et albida vestita (hac in 
prothorace postice, in elytrorum basi suturaque, in corpore 
subtus et in tibiis condensata) ; oculis modicis inter se late 
remotis ; antennarum artieulis basali modico minus dilatato, 
2° minuto transverso, ceteris ramos elongatos singulos 
emittentibus, articuli 3' ramo quam 4' parum breéviori et ad 
4‘ ad basin contiguo ; prothorace conico, basi valde bisinuata, 
lateribus (superne visis) vix sinuatis ; elytris postice modice 
angustatis. Long., 221; lat., 1 1. 
This species seems to be entirely piceous, and to owe its 
variegation entirely tu pubesence. The upper surface is densely 
-clothed with very fine pubesence, which is of red-brown colour 
except on certain parts where it is whitish,—viz., the hind part 
of the prothorax and the front part and suture of the elytra. 
The underside is uniformly but less closely (and consequently 
somewhat inconspicuously) clothed with very fine pale hairs, and 
similar hairs clothe the legs, being more conspicuous and pallid 
on the tibia and tarsi than on the femora. The head and 
antenne are of darker colour than the general surface. Apart 
from colour and markings (which seem very distinctive) the 
present insect is at once distinguishable from nervosa, Gerst., 
pruanosa, Gerst., Meyricki, Blackb., and minuta, Blackb., by the 
antenne of its male having the ramus of the third joint nearly 
as long as that of the fourth, and at the base scarcely further 
from that of the fourth than the latter is from that of the fifth. 
As noted above the descriptions of Gerstdéckeri, Macl., and 
Gerstdckeri, Champ. (? Macl.) are not sufticiently minute for com- 
parison apart from colour, but I am almost sure that the insect 
before me is not identical with Sir W. Macleay’s, as the colouring 
seems entirely different, and the remoteness of locality is un- 
favourable to the idea of identity. Gersttéckeri, Champ., evidently 
has very different markings ; its antenne have the ramus of the 
third joint elongate, but it is not specified whether the first 
ramus is placed at a long interval from the second ; but even if 
Mr. Champion’s insect is identical with mine, it is somewhat 
certainly not Gerstdckem, Macl., and in that case needs a new 
name. 
W. Australia ; taken at Perth by Mr. Meyrick. 
E. minuta, Blackb. In comparing this very small insect with 
‘the above two species, I regret to find that there is an error in 
my description of its antenne (Trans. Roy. Soc., vol. XVI, p. 
