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distinct club and to be referable to the Belides ; but as it has no 

 other resemblance to those genera, being in general appearance 

 as unlike a Belid as it can well be, it does not seem at all satis- 

 factory to give it such a place. The idea of its being a Belid once 

 laid aside, the general resemblance to Erirhinince must certainly 

 strike the attention, and subsequent consideration cannot fail I 

 think to indicate those latter as really being the tribe of which 

 the present insect is an aberrant member. Regarding it as such 

 I do not find any aberration except in the antennae which un- 

 doubtedly are very unlike those of a typical Erirhinid; neverthe- 

 less even these when carefully observed are found to differ in 

 degree rather than fundamentally, — for the basal joint (though 

 not longer than the following two joints together) is evidently a 

 " scape," and the joints following it do not uninterruptedly (as 

 they do in Belus) continue the direction of the basal joint but 

 are feebly geniculate with it. Perhaps however the greatest diver- 

 gence from the Erirhinid type is in the antennae not having a 

 denned club but terminating quite like those of a Belus ; yet 

 even this character is distantly approximated in Eniopea. The 

 position of the antennae (inserted on the underside of the base of 

 the rostrum and separated only by a narrow canthus) does not 

 appear to be more inconsistent with the Erirhinince than with 

 any other Tribe that I can suggest for this species to be placed 

 in ; — so that on the whole I feel fairly confident that I am placing 

 it rightly. Its claws scarcely differ from those of an Emplesis. 

 The prothorax and elytra in outline much resemble those of 

 Rhynchites betuleti, F., except in the prothorax being more 

 conico-cylindric. The basal two segments of the abdomen 

 separated by a well-defined suture and the presence of a good- 

 sized scutellum and the absence of an antennal club separate the 

 present species from Apion and its allies as characterised by 

 Lacordaire. 



C. condensatus, sp. now Fern. (?). Tota rufo-brunnea, pilis 

 brevibus dilutioribus inaequaliter vestitus, his in elytro 

 utroque ut lunula magna indeterminata conclensatis (cujus 

 apices in margine laterali positi sunt) ; rostro gracili, cylin- 

 drico, leviter arcuato, quam prothorax sat longiori, subtiliter 

 sparsim punctulato ; antennarum scapo articulis sequentibus 

 2 conjunctis longitudine sat aequali, funiculi articulis 1° quam 

 2 US et 2° quam 3 ns paullo brevioribus, 3° — 5° inter se sat 

 aequalibus, 6° 7° que paullo brevioribus ; prothorace vix 

 transverso, crebre fortiter sat rugulose punctulato ; elytris 

 punctulato-striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis crebre sub- 

 rugulose punctulatis. Long, (rostr. excl.), 2J 1.; lat, 1JL 

 Australia ; exact habitat uncertain, but I believe it to be in 

 Eyre's Peninsula. 



