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Somewliat of the same shape as C. cequalis but with the sides 

 of the elytra less parallel. The prothorax is rather strongly 

 transverse, with strongly rounded sides and front a good deal 

 produced over the head (the actual lateral margin is very fine 

 and is not visible from above) ; it is also very convex above- 

 longitudinally {i.e., viewed from the side) ; under a strong lens- 

 the puncturation is seen to be moderately large and not very 

 sparse, but shallow. The elytra are very shining, and almost 

 punctureless ; under a good Coddington lens there are traces 

 just discernible of very fine and sparing puncturation. 



A single specimen was taken by me near Adelaide. 

 C setiferus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; subopacus ; niger, setis 

 brevibus erectis albis vestitus ; antennis (clava excepta) 

 palpis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace sparsius, elytris^ 

 sat crebre, rugulose punctulatis. Long. 4 1. 



A rather narrow elongate species, a little wide behind tha 

 middle of the elytra, rather evenly beset all over with close 

 erect short stout setae of a silvery-white colour which tend to 

 run in rows on the elytra. The prothorax is scarcely wider 

 than long, a good deal produced over the head in front, con^ 

 tracted from the base to the apex (most strongly near the base), 

 the sides little rounded, the lateral edging fine, but not ex- 

 cessively so, and visible from above, the surface finely coriaceous- 

 and also pretty closely set with larger shallow punctures. The 

 elytra are obscurely but closely and rather rugosely punctured. 

 The puncturation of the underside is ill-defined and obscure 

 under a Coddington lens. 



Two specimens in my collection, from Eoseworthy. 



TENEBKIONID^. 

 SCYMEjS-A. 



The insect that forms the subject of the following descrip- 

 tion appears to belong to this genus, which was founded by 

 Mr. Pascoe in 1866, for a species from N.S."W. It was, how- 

 ever, only very briefly characterised as follows (I translate 

 from the Latin) — " Characters as in Phaleria, but the clypeus 

 deeply and squarely excised. Antennae shorter than the head. 

 Interfemoral process acute at the apex." Four years later 

 Mr. Pascoe described a second species (from Western Aus- 

 tralia) in the " Annals of IN'atural History," and describes its- 

 antennae as "nearly as long as the ividth of the head," which 

 introduces an ambiguity I think into the generic characters. 

 In characterizing the species, however, he says, "closely resem- 

 bles Phaleria cadaverina.'" The species now before me so 

 singularly resembles that insect that I have little doubt of its- 

 generic connection with Mr. Pascoe's insects. But if I am 



