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blotch having its base on the lateral margin as well as some 

 small dispersed spots ; the elevated parts of the interstices also 

 are blackish. These markings are more or less distinct on all the 

 examples I have examined. The variegated antennae seem to be 

 a reliable character, the scape being testaceous red, the basal two 

 joints of the funiculus nearly black, the rest of the funiculus 

 piceous, the club black. 



N.S.W.; taken by Mr. Lea at Glen Innes. 

 G, simplex, sp. nov. Minus brevis ; subparallela ; picea vel 

 ferruginea, antennis (clava excepta) pedibusque (nonnul- 

 lorum exemplorum femoribus infuscatis) rufo-testaceis : 

 squamis albido-griseis subsericeis sat sequaliter minus dense 

 vestita ; funiculi articulo 2' quam l""*" liaud breviori ; rostro 

 quam prothorax (maris vix, feminae paullo) longiori, longi- 

 tudinaliter jDunctulato minus distincte strigato ; prothorace 

 modice trans^ erso, lateribus fortiter rotundatis ; elytris 

 punctulato-striatis, interstitiis sat j^qualibus. Long, (rostr. 

 incL), If -2 1.; lat., ^V" f 1- 

 Difiers from its previously described congeners, except 

 G. Andersoni, in its evidently more parallel and less short build. 

 From Andersoni it differs by the longer second joint of its funi- 

 culus, its elytral interstices almost devoid of inequalities, and the 

 very strongly rounded sides of its prothorax. In the examples 

 that I have seen there is no pattern formed by differently 

 coloured scales, but the whole surface is somewhat thinly clothed 

 with whitish-grey scales having a slightly silky lustre. If, how- 

 ever, the insect be examined somewhat oljliquely, with its head 

 towards the observer, the basal-half of the elytra appears to be 

 of a dark-colour and the apical-Jialf whitish, but this appears to 

 be due only to the way in which tlie light falls upon the scales. 

 X.S. Wales. 



NiPHOBOLUS (gen. nov., Erirhininarum). 

 Corpus modice elongatum, squamosum ; rostrum sat breve sat 

 robustum (fere ut Bagoi), leviter arcuatum, subcylindricum ; 

 scrobes pnemediana^ obliqute infra rostrum directa:* ; scapus 

 oculum vix attingens ; funiculus 6-articulatus ; oculi grosse 

 granulati ; prothorax modice cylindricus antice angustatus, 

 basi vix bisinuata, lobis ocularibus nullis ; scutellum minus 

 distinctum ; elytra quam prothorax sat latiora ; prosternum 

 antice leviter emarginatum, ante coxas minus elongatum : 

 cox£e intermedife inter se sat approximate ; femora mutica 

 sed subtus subangulata ; tibiae anticas ad apicem mucro- 

 natae ; tarsorum articuli basales 2 sat breves, 3° elongato 

 fortiter bilobo, 4° vix exserto ; unguiculi elongati graciles 

 subdivaricati ; segmenta ventralia 3*"" 4"'" que conjuncta 



