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Head feebly punctate. Rostrum long, rather feebly punctate. 
Prothorax longer than wide, sides equally rounded ; densely and 
rather strongly granulate. lytra subtriangular; sides and 
shoulders feebly rounded, base about once and one-half wider 
than prothorax ; punctate-striate, punctures rather large, sub- 
contiguous, partially concealed; interstices feebly convex, 
slightly wider than punctures; densely and rather minutely 
granulate. Under-surface rather sparsely punctate, a feeble 
depression in middle of and common to first and second abdominal 
segments, and a rather more distinct impression on apical. 
Length, 42 mm.; rostrum, 1} mm.; width, 2 mm. 
Hab.—N.8.W.: Richmond River. 
Differs from rubeta (Pascoe) in the colour of the pzothorax and 
under-surface (in that species the meso- and metasternum are 
black), the shape of the elytra (in rubeta the sides are subparallel 
to about the apical third, in the above they decrease in width 
from the shoulders), and in the number, colour, and disposition 
of the spots. The shape of the head, rostrum, prothorax, and 
legs are much alike in both species. 
MISOPHRICE. 
Of the Australian Hrirhinide, three genera (Misophrice, 
Thechia, and Anarciarthrum) are noted by Mr. Blackburn as 
having triarticulate tarsi. Anarciarthrum, as it appears to me, ean 
scarcely be maintained ; it differs from Mtsophrice in having the 
funicle composed of tive joints only. I think the genus, of which 
only one species is known, should be regarded as forming a section 
of Misophrice. Thechia,* apparently unknown to Mr. Blackburn, 
(as it is to me), is described as having a seven-jointed funicle ; 
the impression left on my mind after examining Mr. Pascoe’s 
description of 7. pygmea is that it is an insect strongly resem- 
bling dispar, mwnda, and other species of Muzsophrice. I hardly 
think it desirable to establish several genera on species having 
such a very strong character as the absence (or apparent absence 
ravher) of the claw-joint in common ; at least without other and 
very strongly marked peculiarities, and the species of a number 
of genera are known to vary in the number of joints in the 
funicle. 
MISOPHRICE ALTERNATA, 2. sp. 
Piceous-black ; scape and first joint of funicle red; elytra, 
abdomen, and legs dull dark-red. Clothed with dull whitish 
scales, comparatively dense on prothorax, moderately dense on 
third, fifth, and seventh interstices of the elytra, but feeble, 
*In Master’s Catalogue, as Trechia, to T. pygmea (No. 5,204) add 
Plate iii., fig. 16. 
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