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ticketed " X.-W. Australia," which I am unable to distinguish 

 from examples of A. cornutus that I have received from New 

 Ouinea. The o^enus is remarkable among its near allies for its 

 anterior coxae not being contiguous, as well as for the very peculiar 

 shape of its elytra, and has not previously been reported as Aus- 

 tralian 



LEPTOPSINI. 

 CHERRUS. 



C. ocularis, sp. nov\ Mas. Modice elongatus ; piceus, indu- 

 mento fusco dense tectus, oculis squamis niveis circumcinctis, 

 pedibus et corpore subtus (prassertim maculis in abdomine 

 nonnullis) hie illic squamis setulisque griseis vel albidis 

 variegatis ; rostri sculptura ut C. riificornis, sed sub indu- 

 mentum vix manifesta ; antennis minus gracilibus, funiculi 

 articulo basali quam 2*"* 3"^ que conjuncti paullo breviori ; 

 prothorace quam elytra fere latiori, quam longiori fere 

 dimidia parte (postice quam antice circiter quarta parte) 

 latiori, supra sat planato tuberculis sat elevatis sat in^qual- 

 ibus plus minus crebre ornato, lateribus sat fortiter ampliato- 

 rotundatis, lobis ocularibus fortiter productis ; elytris quam 

 pro thorax vix duplo longioribus, ad basin quam prothoracis 

 basis haud latioribus, mox pone basin constrictis, hinc ad 

 apicem ovalibus, minus convexis ad latera abrupte vertical- 

 ibus, parte dorsali haud manifeste striata plus minusve 

 distincte seriatim punctulata et tuberculis nonnullis sat 

 magnis seriebus binis dispositis (granulis nonnullis minus 

 ordinatis intermixtis) ornata, parte verticali punctulato- 

 striata (interstitiis convexis), humeris sat acute productis. 

 Femina latet. Long., 7 1.; lat., 2^ 1. 



Very distinct from its previously described congeners by the 

 snowy- white scales round the eyes, which seem to be constant, as 

 well as by the conspicuous spots of whitish scales on the abdomen. 

 As in the other tuberculate Cherri (so far as I have observed 

 them) the tubercules on the prothorax and elytra are alike in 

 but few specimens. Those on the prothorax are distinctly isolated 

 inter se, not confluent or vermiculate (as they are in plebeius, 

 *kc.), and are generally arranged in clusters, leaving large free 

 spaces, but in some examples are more evenly distributed. 

 On each elytron in most individuals there are two rows of 

 large isolated tubercles (about where the third and fifth inter- 

 stices might be), varying in number from thi-ee or four to about 

 eight ; and there are also a number of well-defined isolated 

 granules, sometimes running in rows, sometimes much confused. 

 The tubercles vary much in size. To the eye the prothorax 

 appears wider than the elytra. I have taken the " length of the 



