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articulo basali quam sequentes 3 vix breviori; prothorace 
vix transverso, subquadrato, antice leviter angustato, supra 
sat crebre sat subtiliter rugulosa, lateribus parum arcuatis ; 
elytris punctulato-striatis, interstitiis subcostatis setis brevi- 
bus albis adpressis seriatim ornatis. Long. (rostr. incl.), 24 
elated. 
The upper surface is very uniformly clothed (in the examples 
before me) with small, close-set, inconspicuous pale fulvous scales, 
the sides of the prothorax and the shoulders, however, bearing 
scales that are somewhat conspicuously more pallid than those of 
the general surface. The scales of the under surface are whitish. 
The shape and general facies of this insect recall Xeda to the 
mind; the rostrum, however, is very different, the eyes are 
coarsely granulate, the prothorax is much narrower at the base 
than the elytra and not much narrowed in front, the claw-joint 
of the tarsi much longer, We. 
N.S. Wales ; taken by Mr. Lea near Gosford. 
CYDMAA,. 
C. mixta, sp. nov. Sat late ovalis; picea, antennis tibis tarsis- 
que plus minusve rufescentibus ; squamis fulvis albidisque 
intermixtis vestita; rostro quam prothorax (maris vix, 
femine manifeste) longioril, minus compresso; funiculi 
articulo 1° quam 2"* multo longiori; prothorace leviter 
transverso; elytris punctulato-striatis, interstitiis vix con- 
vexis. Long. (rostr. incl.), 12 1.; lat., 3 1. (vix). 
The arrangement of the scales in this species are (as usual in 
the Australian Hrirhininz) fairly constant in colour, but variable 
in arrangement. In all the specimens J have seen (taken by Mr. 
Lea and myself) the fulvous and white scales are so arranged as 
to present the appearance of the fulvous scales forming the 
ground and the whitish scales being condensed in the form of 
small spots rather closely and evenly distributed over the upper 
surface—in some examples without any more pattern-like arrange- 
ment, in others running into irregular ill-defined transverse series 
(especially on the hinder part of the elytra). 
This species somewhat resembles crassirostris, Blackb., but is 
of somewhat narrower build, with a much less compressed ros- 
trum, more reddish antenne and tibie, and very different 
markings. 
N.S. Wales; in the neighborhood of Sydney. 
ENCOSMIA. 
E. cornuta, sp.nov. Minus elongata; ferruginea, squamis silaceis 
plus minusve vestita ; rostro quam prothorax vix longiori, 
punctulato ; funiculi articulis basalibus 2 sat elongatis (basali 
