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me the basal half of the rostrum is opaque, and with coars© 

 punctures, but the apical half is shining and with sparse and 

 minute punctures. If the species is amcenula, as seems quite 

 possible, then Icucospihi, as the later name, will have to be 

 dropped. The size ranges from 3A to 4| mm. 



Baris australis, Boi. 

 The description* of this species is too short to enable any 

 insect to be positively identified from it, but such as it is it 

 fits t\\2 preceding species and no other known to me from 

 Australia. 



Section l.j 



Baris angophor^, n. sp. 



Black, shining. Upper surface head and rostrum 

 sparsely, elsewhere moderately densely clothed with white 

 scales. 



Head with dense punctures larger at apex than at 

 base. Eostrinn distinctly longer than prothorax ; a slight de- 

 pression marking its junction with head, densely and coarsely 

 punctate on sides, punctures sublinear in arrangement along 

 middle. Scape inserted slightly beyond the middle in male, 

 slightly before it in female; basal joint of funicle stout, not 

 twice as long as second. Prothorax with dense, rather large, 

 clearly defined punctures becoming small at middle of apex. 

 Elytra cordate, striate, the two sutural striae with distinct 

 punctures towards base, interstices each with a single row of 

 somewhat irregular and not clearly defined punctures. 

 Femora edentate. Length, 2§ mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Ash Island (Macleay Mu- 

 seum), Narrabeen (W. W. Froggatt), Sydney, National Park 

 (A. M. Lea). 



The whole insect is somewhat briefly elliptic in outline; 

 the jDrothorax is fully twice as wide at base as at apex, its 

 base is strongly bisinuate, sides strongly rounded, disc mode- 

 rately convex and the scutellar lobe slightly flattened, all 

 these being characters common to most of the species here 

 described. The punctures in the elytral interstices are not 

 very clearly defined, but when seen obliquely appear to be in 

 single rows; some of them are transverse; the lateral inter- 

 stices from certain directions appear to be overlapping. The 

 white scales are absent from the disc of the prothorax, but are 



* ''Ater, albo-lineatus, thorace riiguloso ; Qlytris piinctato- 

 striatis." 



t I have not usually considered it necessary to describe in 

 each of the species; the characters for which they are placed in 

 the various sections. 



