the elytra are quickly dilated behind the base ; the shoulders are 
distinctly marked. The legs are more or less reddish, the anterior 
tibiz denticulate within. There are no defined markings, the 
whitish, fawn-colored, and darker scales shading off one into 
another ; but the paler shades predominating at the sides more 
or less distinctly. The sculpture of the upper surface (except 
the punctulate strize of the elytra) is completely hidden by the 
scales. 
Western Australia ; taken by E. Meyrick, Esq. 
P. squalidus, sp. nov. Obscurus; indumento terreo indutus ; 
setis brevibus adpressis rufis sparsim vestitus; rostro sat 
plano, parte superiori in medio valde constricta ; scrobibus 
plane supernis fere rotundatis ; oculis subrotundatis ; pro- 
thorace quam longiori (et postice quam antice) vix latiori, 
lateribus sat rotundatis; scutello haud manifesto; elytris 
quam prothorax fere dimidio latioribus paullo plus quam 
duplo longioribus, basi emarginatis, striatis, striis minus dis- 
tincte punctulatis, interstitiis postice sat convexis, lateribus 
modice rotundatis. Long., 14—241.; lat., +—1 1. 
Usually completely covered with an earthy-looking indumen- 
tum, which it is almost impossible to remove without removing 
the underlying scales, but (as far as I can see) the insect without 
the indumentum is densely clothed with scales of various shades 
of brown, some of them bright, and almost coppery. The most 
distinctive character consists in the remarkable sculpture of the 
rostrum, in which the scrobes look like roundish holes inserted in 
the upper surface, and separated from each other by a space less 
than a third part the width of the whole rostrum, as viewed from 
above. The space between them has a little the appearance of 
being compressed into a kind of rzdge, as though the true upper 
surface of the rostrum were here very narrow; this quasi-ridge 
being at its narrowest at the hind end of the scrobes, and its 
sides diverging from that point forward (at the same time form- 
ing the inner edge of the scrobes). The head, rostrum, and front 
of prothorax, viewed from the side) are almost as in the preceding 
species ; but the eyes are rounder, and both eyes and scrobes 
appear much nearer to the upper line of the outline. The antennz 
are a little longer and less stout than those of P. wmbratus, joints 
3 to 7 of the funiculus being not quite so wide as long, and the 
club being considerably longer and less thickened. The inner 
outline of the front tibiz is spinulose rather than denticulate. 
Two examples taken at no great distance from Adelaide, 
although smaller than the type (long., 1} 1.), appear to me to 
belong to this species. They are, however, devoid of the indu- 
mentum that is usually present, their surface being clothed with 
