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ineister could have made such a mistake; equally so that he should 

 have re-described under another name (griseaj an insect which 

 he believed to be already described by Blanchard and then have 

 deliberately placed Blanchard's name as a discarded synonym 

 below his own. Is it possible he can have thought this course 

 justified by the fact that the specimen he described bore a MS. 

 name affixed to it by Hope at a date possibly earlier than that of 

 Blanchard's publication ? However that may he IT. jnlosa, Burm. 

 (and not grisea, Burm.) is evidently the same as lineoligera, 

 Blanch., and therefore the name pilosa, Burm., must drop (as a 

 synonym of lineoligera) and grisea, Burm., must stand as a good 

 species. 



CAULOBIUS. 



I have discussed this genus above in connection with Haplopsis. 

 The following species are I think new. 



C. punciulatus, sp. nov. Sat nitidus ; subcylindricus ; rufes- 

 cens, capite prothorace metasternoque picescentibus ; pilis 

 brevibus pallidis suberectis minus confertim vestitus ; capite 

 rugulose sat grosse sat crebre punctulato, clypeo antice 

 truncato sat fortiter reflexo ; prothorace transverso, antice 

 angustato, rugulose grosse sat crebre punctulato, lateribus 

 arcuatis (latitudine majori paullo pone medium posita) basin 

 versus subsinuatis, angulis anticis acutis posticis subrectis, 

 basi media modice lobata ; scutello parum manifesto pun- 

 ctulato ; elytris fortiter sat grosse crenulato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis angustis ina^qualiter nee fortiter convexis ; tibiis 

 anticis dentibus 2 prope apicem sat magnis et altero minute 

 ad basin externis armatis ; antennis 9-articulatis, clava sat 

 elongata quam articuli ceteri conjuncti vix breviori ; tarsis 

 4 anterioribus (posticis exempli typici carentibus) modice 

 elongatis, articulis ad apicem fortiter clavatis 2° quam I''* 

 longiori. Long., 3 1.; lat.. If 1. 

 I am uncertain of the sex of the unique type of this species, as 

 I do not find any very reliable external sexual characters in 

 Caulobius. The labrum is scarcely distinct from the front face 

 of the clypeus and is pointed behind, its point being opposite to 

 an emargination of the mentum. 



W. Australia ; taken by Mr. Meyrick, near Albany. 

 C. advena, sp. nov. Subnitidus ; subcylindricus ; piceo-brunneus 

 antennarum stipite tarsis elytrisque plus minusve rufescent- 

 ibus ; pilis brevibus pallidis suberectis subtilibus minus 

 confertim vestitus ; capite crebrius minus grosse minus pro- 

 funde punctulato, clypeo antice truncato sat fortiter reflexo, 

 antennis 9 (?) articulatis, clava sat elongata quam articuli 

 ceteri conjuncti vix breviori ; prothorace transverso, antice 



