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sevenths from apex of rostrum, and just passing, and the club 
elongate-ovate. 
Hab.-—Forest Reefs. 
STOREUS EPPHIPIGER, 7. Sp. 
Male. Briefly ovate. Dark-red, rostrum and antenne paler; 
elytra stained with piceous, except near base; metasternum 
piceous. Head moderately clothed with yellowish adpressed 
scales, denser between eyes than elsewhere, and feebly continued 
along sides of rostrum. Upper-surface with dingy-greyish or 
ochreous scales, sparsely and rather evenly distributed ; elytra 
' with a very distinct subquadrate patch of white scales, which 
commences about the middle, and is continued below summit of 
posterior declivity. Under-surface with sparse whitish scales, 
legs rather more densely clothed. 
Rostrum moderately strongly curved throughout, slightly © 
longer than prothorax, very feebly incurved to middle; with 
traces of feeble costee, which are marked by tive elongate punc- 
tures, and separated by rows of moderately strong ones; apical 
portion rather strongly punctate. Antennz rather stout ; scape 
inserted two-fifths from apex cf rostrum, not one-third passing, 
the length of funicle; first joint of the latter the length of 
second-fourth, second almost as long as_ third-fourth, sixth- 
seventh transverse ; club ovate, almost the length of four pre- 
ceding joints. Prothorax feebly transverse, sides almost equally 
rounded, apex not much narrower than base, base almost 
straight. Elytra cordate, apex scarcely emarginate; seriate- 
punctate, punctures moderately large and subquadrate. Pro- 
sternal channel distinct, apex moderately emarginate. Abdomen 
with third and fourth segments feebly arcuate throughout. 
Legs moderately long; tibiz feebly bisinuate beneath. Length, 
2 mm.; rostrum, = mm. 
Hab.—W.A.: Geraldton. 
The first and second joints of the funicle are distinctly 
doubled, and there is a faint trace of doubling in the third- 
fourth ; the rostral cost are little more than feeble ridges, and 
had my specimens (four) been judged by this character they 
would probably have been considered as females. 
STOREUS MULTIARTICULATUS, 7. Sp. 
Male. Shape, colour, and size much as in preceding. Scales 
much as in preceding, except that they are rather less evenly 
distributed, and that the elytra are without a distinet patch. 
Rostrum comparatively stout ; with seven rather feeble coste, 
of which the median one is scareely traceable, very feebly 
diminishing in width from base to apex; apical half moderately 
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