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ANORTHORHINUS* APICALIS, 7. sp. 
Black, subopaque ; tarsi and apex of tibiez pale-red ; antennze 
reddish-piceous. Sparsely clothed with sooty and grey scales, 
the latter feebly transversely arranged on elytra, and forming 
three feeble longitudinal lines on prothorax. Under-surface and 
legs with sparse pale scales, snowy on apex of tibie. 
Head densely punctate. Rostrum with five coste, three of 
which are placed on a median elevation. Antenne moderately 
elongate. Prothorax longer than wide, apex the width of base, 
sides gently rounded; densely and coarsely punctate. Hlytra 
twice the width of prothorax, shoulders square; striate-punctate, 
punctures quadrate and subapproximate, the third, fifth, and 
seventh interstices wider than the others, and raised especially 
near base; a preapical callus on each side. Under-surface densely 
and strongly punctate, punctures on metasternum perfectly 
circular. Prosternum feebly emarginate. Length, 4 mm. ; 
rostrum, ? mm.; width, 13 mm. 
Hab.—Tasmania (Mr. A. Simson, No. 2,925). N.S.W.: 
Galston (Lea). 
May be readily distinguished by the colour of the apex of 
tibiz and the coarse punctures of the under-surface. 
ANORTHORHINUS ABJECTUS, 7. sp. 
Black, subopaque; tibize and tarsi of a pale-red, base of 
femora dark-red, antenne piceous. Head and rostrum to eyes 
with whitish setose scales, a moderately dense stripe of similar 
scales on each side of prothorax ; elytra with smaller scales 
rather evenly distributed. Under-surface and legs with whitish 
sete. 
Head densely punctate. Rostrum the length of prothorax, 
with five narrow cost, which terminate at antenne. Scape 
comparatively slender. Prothorax as in apicalis, but less coarsely 
punctate. lytra twice the width of prothorax, shoulders some- 
what oblique; striate-punctate, punctures rather large and sub- 
approximate ; interstices punctate, the third, fifth, and seventh 
very feebly raised, each side with a preapical callus. Under- 
surface rather finely punctate. Prosternum  semicircularly 
emarginate in front. Length, 34 mm.; rostrum, ? mm.; 
width, 1+ mm. 
Hab.—Swan River. 
Compared with the description of Phrenozemia lyproides, 
Pascoe, this species differs in having the scales without a pearly 
lustre, and the antenne much darker than tibie. 
*I think it highly probable that this genus (possibly synonymous with 
Phrenozemia) will eventually be merged in Desiantha. 
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