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Claris metasterno postiee et segmentis basalibus 2 longitudin- 



aliter sulcatis ; elytris ad apicem siinplicibus. 

 Femin^e corpore siibtus hand sulcato; elytris singulis ad apicem 



lit processus conicus productis. 

 This species seems to be near D. caudata, Pasc , but that 

 insect is described as "pale ferruginous" in colour, and there is 

 no remark on its elytral interstices l^eing of alternately different 

 colours. In my tabulation of the species of Desiantlia (P. L. 8. 

 N.S.W., 1890, p. 326) this one falls beside D. obscura, from 

 which the pale brown vittie on its elytra at once distinguish it. 



Victoria. 

 D. pusilla, sp. nov. Minus elongata; picea, squamis sordide 

 branneis vestita, jDedibus (tarsis exceptis) et antennis (clava 

 excepta) plus minusve rufescentiljus ; prothorace minus sub- 

 tiliter vix confertim vix rugulose punctulato ; elytris punc- 

 tulato-striatis, interstitiis convexis (nonnullis quam cetera 

 magis elevatis), setulis (retrorsum curvatis) ornatis, inter- 

 stitiis 4° 5° 6° que postiee conjunctis manifeste nodulosis. 

 Maris metasterno et segmentis basaliljus 2 sulcatis ; rostro 

 brevi, sat crasso, longitudinaliter sat distincte strigato. 

 Long., If 1.; lat., ^ 1. 

 This species is extremely close to D. parca, Blackb., but I 

 think it is distinct. The male is much smaller than the male of 

 D. parva, and is evidently less parallel and wider ; its rostrum is 

 distinctly shorter and stouter with its upper surface distinctly 

 sculptured, having three quite well-defined fine longitudinal lines 

 on each side of the central line (whereas in D. parca the central 

 line alone is clearly traceable) ; the antenna; are a little shorter 

 and stouter. 



The two or three examples (all males) that I have seen are 

 more or less clothed with a dirty indumentum, the removal of 

 which takes off the scales also, so that I am unable to give a 

 satisfactory description of the colours in a well-marked specimen, 

 but as far as I can judge the lighter-coloured scales (as in parva) 

 run in three ill-defined vitta? on the prothorax, the lateral ones 

 being slightly continued on the elytra ; they appear to be devoid 

 of the slight coppery gloss which distinguishes the scales on 

 J), parva. 



Victoria ; sent by Mr. French. 



EPACTicus (gen. nov. Erirhininarum). 

 Sat elongatus ; squamis crassis vestitus ; rostrum sat gracile sat 

 elongatum (fere ut Gerynass(f sed paulo brevius), arcuatum, 

 subcylindricum ; scrobes laterales obliqua? pra?mediana3 ; 

 scapus oculum attingens ; funiculus 7-articulatus : oculi 

 modici sat grosse granulati ; prothorax plus minusve cylin- 



