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scrobes submediane, antice late, postice vix distincte ; 
antenne robuste, scapo prothoracem vix attingenti, funiculo 
7-articulato (articulis 3 basalibus quam latioribus paullo 
longioribus, 4—6 brevioribus, 7° longiori), clava distincta ; 
oculi modici obtiqui late ovales; prothorax subcylindricus, 
lobis ocularibus fere nullis; scutellum indistinctum ; pedes 
modici ; tibiarum corbule aperte ; unguiculi liberi; metas- 
ternum breve ; processus intercoxalis minus latus; corpus 
squamosum et setosum. 
_I found this genus for a remarkable little species that I have 
had for some time past unnamed in my colleztion, and which has 
recently been sent tome by Mr. French with the information 
that it is destructive to vegetation in Victoria. I feel some 
hesitation in assigning it to the Leptopsides, but it seems to be 
more at home there than anywhere else; moreover, Mr. Lea 
(who has lately been much occupied with the Australian 
Curculionide) tells me that he regards it as an undescribed 
Leptopsid genus. The extreme feebleness of the ocular lobes and 
the wide obliquely-placed eyes are unusual in the Tribe. The 
following characters in combination distinguish this from the 
other characterised Australian Leptopsid genera :—Corbels of 
hind tibize open, claws normal and free, scape of the antennze 
reaching (when set back) to the prothorax. Probably its nearest 
ally is Scotasmus (which I have not seen), which differs from it, 
inter alia, by the scape of its antenne reaching only to the eyes. 
FE. inequalis, sp. nov. Piceus, squamis albidis fuscisque con- 
fertim et setis brevibus suberectis (his ut squame coloratis) 
minus crebre vestitus ; prothorace quam longiori vix latiori 
(latitudine majori paullo ante medium posita), crebre 
subtilius ruguloso et indeterminate ineequali ; elytris striatis, 
striis crenulato punctulatis, interstitlis confertim subtilius 
punctulatis, interstitio 3° tuberculis circiter 4 obtusis armato 
(ex his posterioribus 2 sat magnis), interstitio 5° tuberculis 
nonnullis subobsoletis armato. Long. (rostro inel.), 22 1; 
hate. 1. J. 
In fresh specimens the whitish and pale fuscous scales so 
thickly cover the whole surface that no sculpture is noticeable, 
except the hinder two tubercles on the third interstice of each 
elytron. 
Victoria. 
CUBICORHYNCHUS. 
C. tortipes, Blackb. Mr. Lea tells me that he has examined 
the type of C. angularis, Macl., and finds that tortzpes is identical 
with it. © Mr. Pascoe (Journ. Linn. Soc., 1873) states, “on the 
authority of Mr. Duboulay,” that angularis is the male of 
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