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<|Ucam 2"'" miilto breviora, ultimo sat brevi ; sutiirfe ventrales 

 intermedifti ad latera vix angulata^. 

 The general resemblance of this genus to Bayous is most 

 noticeable, although its structural characters do not indicate any 

 close affinity to that genus. Its most striking peculiarity is to 

 be found, I think, in the tarsi, which are comparatively short and 

 M-ide, slightly and evenly increasing in width from the base to 

 the apex of the third joint, this latter being deeply and widely 

 bilobed, and almost reaching beyond the fourth joint ; the claws 

 long and slender, like those of Bagous, and remarkable as being 

 (neither truly divergent nor truly divaricate, but) separated 

 •almost as abruptly as if they were divaricate, yet wdth their axes 

 not quite at right angles to a line running down the centre of the 

 fourth joint of the tarsus. The genus also differs from Bagous 

 by its six-jointed funiculus, its more coarsely granulated eyes, its 

 prothorax without ocular lobes, its prosternum not excavated, 

 ^nd its shorter and stouter legs. The combination of six-jointed 

 funiculus, claw joint scarcely exserted, and rostrum comparatively 

 short and robust, distinguishes it, I think, from all previously 

 described genera of Erirhinince. It appears to me possible that 

 it is identical with Notionomus, Er., but no description of that 

 genus has been published ; the species ( X. australis, Er.) on which 

 Xotionomus was founded I have not seen (it was unknown to 

 I\[. Lacordaire), but though it is clearly from Erichson's descrip- 

 tion quite different specifically from that l:>efore me, its characters 

 suggest the possibility of generic identity. Erichson subsequently 

 stated that his XofAonomiis is identical with Endalus, in which 

 ease it is certainly not congeneric with the insect I am descril:>ing, 

 as Endalus, inter alia, has a long slender rostrum. 

 X. deceptor, sp. nov. Piceus, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus, 

 squamis albidis et nonnullis bruiuieis dense vestitus ; pro- 

 thorace leviter transverso, pone apicem fortiter constricto 

 crebre vix subtiliter punctulato ; elytris punctulato-striatis, 

 interstitiis sat convexis setis brevibus seriatim instructis, 

 humeris lateraliter subprominulis. Long, (rostr. inch), 1|1.; 

 lat., |h (vix.) 

 To a casual glance this species bears a remarkable resemblance 

 to the European Bagous hitnlentus, ^ylh, though differing very 

 widely in its structural characters. In a fresh example every 

 part is densely clothed with slightly shining scales, so small and 

 closely packed as to simulate some extraneous indumentum. The 

 prevailing colour of these scales is whitish, on which some 

 brownish scales form a large feebly-detined blotch on the pro- 

 thorax, and various blotches on the elytra generally of the form 

 of two or three obscure fascia^ placed near the front, about the 

 middle, and near the apex. 



N.S. AVales ; taken by ^Ir. Lea near Tam worth. 



