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Maris antennarum clava quam stipes pauUo longiori ; f eminae 

 breviori. Long., 2^ 1. ; lat., 1^ 1. 



There are six specimens before me of this insect, and I 

 do not find any very conspicuous sexual characters among 

 them. In some, however, which I take to be males, the joints 

 of the flabellum are slightly longer than the 4 joints together 

 of the stipes, and the clypeus is a little more abruptly trun- 

 cate than in others whose antennal flabellum is a little shorter. 

 The species has a thick-set, coarsely sculptured appearance, 

 suggestive of a lilliputian ISynhomorjilia, from which, how- 

 ever, its structural characters separate it widely, e.r/.^ its con- 

 spicuously granulate eyes with the hind angles of the clypeus 

 projecting considerably beyond the outline of the eyes. 



Western Australia; sent by Mr. Lea and others, from 

 Perth. 



C. rot iindus, sp. nov. Ovatus ; latissimus ; minus nitidus ; ob- 

 scure rufus, capite prothorace metasternoque picescenti- 

 bus ; setis fulvis decumbentibus minus crebre vestitus ; 

 antennis 9-articulatis ; clyj:)eo reflexo cum fronte pro- 

 thoraceque sat ^equaliter sat crebre minus grosse granu- 

 loso-ruguloso, antice truncato : prothorace sat fortiter 

 transverso, aequali, basi media vix lobata, lateribus minus 

 arcuatis, angulis anticis acutis ; elytris subtilius granu- 

 loso-rugulosis, interstitiis inter se inaequaiibus (horum 

 nonnullis leviter subcostulatis) ; pygidio leviter sub- 

 tilius punctulato ; tibiis anticis ad apicem bi- (ad basin 

 uni-) dentatis ; tarsorum posticorum articulo 2** quam 

 basalis circiter duplo longiori. Long., 2| 1. ; lat., 1-| 1. 

 I have seen several specimens of this insect, which include 

 both sexes. The antennal flabellum of the male is as long as 

 the preceding joints together : that of the female a little 

 shorter. The species seems out of place in being associated 

 with the very much larger and more cylindrical C. villi ger, 

 Hombr. and Jacq., from which it differs also in the partial 

 exposure of its propygidium. This latter character approximates 

 it to Aufomohfs, but in all the species that I attribute to 

 Automohi.fi there is much m_ore of the propygidium exposed, 

 and the elytra are of different shape, as indicated in the re- 

 marks (above) on the genus .1 utomohifi. 



New South Wales. Taken by Messrs. Carter, Lea, and 

 Taylor; also in the South Australian Museum. 



Haplonycha. 

 I have already discussed the affinities of this genus in 

 Proc. L.S.N.S.W., 1890, pp. 517. etc., and at the same time I 

 furnished a tabulation of the species then known to me, and 



