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been led to modify my opinion by the fuller study of the 
Erirhinini that I have made for the purposes of this memoir. I 
am now strongly convinced that the character of the claws is of 
the first importance in this group; from which it results that 
two species which in the Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1892, p. 147, 
I attributed to Myossita, having divaricate claws, cannot, in my 
opinion, rightly remain under that name. One of them (JV. 
munda) is undoubtedly congeneric with the species that I attri- 
bute in this memoir to Cyttalia ; the other (JZ. crucigera) I 
hesitate to place in Cyttalia on account of its antennal scape 
being too short and its general form too robust for that genus. 
I should treat it as the type of a new genus were it not that it 
agrees fairly with the characters Mr. Pascoe assigns to Agestra, 
but as the diagnosis of Agestra contains no reference to the 
claws, I am barred from calling it an Agestra. Consequently, I 
wish I had not described it, but as that, unfortunately, is a futile 
wish, I can only suggest that it be placed under Agestra, with 
the note added to its name, “?huj. gen.” The third species on 
which I have to remark is that which I described in Proc. Linn. 
Soc., N.S.W., 1890, p. 584, as Agestra punctulata, expressing at 
the time grave doubt as to its real place. Itis a very remarkable 
insect, for which a new generic name must be provided, but as I 
have satisfied myself by a microscopic examination that its claws 
are not really simple, I think, in spite of its Hrirhinid facies, it 
must come out of the Hrirhinini altogether, and I shall therefore 
reserve its fuller treatment for a memoir I hope to offer to the 
Society at an early date, dealing with it and some other allied 
forms of minute Curculionide, which at present I am unable to 
assign to any of M. Lacordaire’s “tribes.” 
The following is a tabulation of the characters of all the 
Erirhinid genera as yet recorded as occurring in Australia, with 
the exception of five imperfectly characterised genera, of which 
I have been unable to procure the opportunity of examining a 
type, and which, therefore, I have placed in a separate tabula- 
tion :— 
A. Tarsi not linear. 
B. Funicle of antennz 7-jointed. 
C. Tarsi 4-jointed. 
D. Femora unarmed. 
K. Eyes distinctly on the head, as distinguished 
from the rostrum. 
F. Scrobes connivent. 
G. Ocular lobes distinct... o ... Aoplocnemis. 
GG. Ocular lobes wanting ae ... Symbothinus. 
FF. Scrobes not connivent. 
G. Front tibize falcate. 
H. Basal joint of hind tarsi elongate; 
elytra not setose athe ... Qsnochroma. 
