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DeCILAUS NOCTIVAGL'S, 11. sp. 
Blackj, antennae and tarsi dull red. Very densely 
clothed with irmddy brown scales, with stouter, suberect, and 
darker scales, rather thickly distributed, and forming feeble 
loose fascicles. 
Head and rostrum with coarse but concealed punc- 
tures, those of the latter evidently in rows. Ho^frum stout, 
the length of prothorax. Scape stout, inserted two-fifths 
from apex of rostrum, the length of five basal joints of 
funicle. Frothorarr transverse, sides rounded : with dense 
but entirely concealed punctures. Elytra briefly sub- 
ovate, not twice the length of prothorax; striate-punctile, 
punctures large, but entirely concealed, striae traceable 
through clothing. Abdomen with rather dense and large 
but entirely concealed punctures. Length, 2f : rostrum, ^ ; 
width, If mm. 
Hab.-^l<^ew South Wales: Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). 
With the exception of }iispid'ii!<, the smallest of the 
genus. I could only take it (at dusk and night time) crawl- 
ing over old "cockatoo" fences, but it was rather numerous 
on them. The surrounding "post-and-rail" fences (although 
numerous other weevils were to be obtained on them at tJhe 
same time) never seemed to attract specimens of this species. 
A specimen from Victoria (Rev. T. Blackburn) differs in 
having the clothing more uniform in size and each individual 
scale traceable and larger. The general colour is a rather 
pale fawn, but with darker patches, the abdomen is sparselv 
clothed, and the femora are distinctly ringed. It probably 
represents a distinct species, or at least a very distinct variety, 
as I cannot find the least variation in the clothing of eighteen 
specimens of the typical form. 
Dectlaus coryssopus, n. sp 
Black, antennae (club infuscate), and tarsi dull red. 
Densely clothed with dark, muddy-grey, thickly intersperseci 
with sooty, erect scales ; an obscure patch of paler scales on 
each side of elytra at basal third, and which is sometimes con- 
tinued on to shoulder. Scales of under surface, both of bodv 
and legs, of a rather dark brown. 
Punctures of head and basal third of rostrum entirely 
concealed ; apical two-thirds of rostrum shining, and with 
round and moderately coarse punctures, not at all seriate in 
arrangement. Scape inserted nearer base than apex, the 
length of two basal joints of funicle : of these the second is 
slightly longer than the first. Prothora.r distinctly^ transverse, 
sides strongly rounded : with dense, moderately large, round, 
clearly-cut punctures, which, however, are almost concealed 
by the clothing. Elytra subcordate, widest about middle : 
