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scutello rotutidato, subtiliter fusco-squamoso ; elytris postiee 

 gradatim angustioribus, seriatim curvato-tuberculatis, interstitiis 

 leviter impresso-punctatis, declivitate dense albo-squamosis, sin- 

 gulis tuberculoconico postiee instructis, apicibns obtuse mucronatis; 

 corpore infra pedibusque dense fusco-squamosis, albido variis. 

 Long. 64-7 lin. 



Hob. Sydney. 



Readily known from ^. notahilis by its concolorous dis- 

 persed scales, except on the declivity of the elytra, which is 

 densely covered with pm-e white scales. Mr. Masters informs 

 me that it is "very destructive to introduced conifers." 



jEsiotes marosus. 

 ^. oblongus, niger, subnudus ; fronte ut in prsecedente ; capite inter 

 oculos rostroque irregulariter lineatim impressis, hoc in medio 

 crista compressa instructo ; antennis pallide setosis ; funiculo ar- 

 ticulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, cseteris subtransversis, baud 

 mouihformibus ; clava breviter ovata ; prothorace latitudine ses- 

 quilongiore, supra tuberculis plerumque magnis, modice elevatis, 

 apice duobus apicalibus cristiformibus, munito ; scutello rotundato, 

 squamis piliformibus silaceis dense vestito ; elytris postiee gra- 

 datim angustioribus, seriatim lateribus sulcato-punctatis, puuctis 

 insequalibus, plurimis siugulatim seta curvata instructis, inter- 

 stitiis tertio quintoque tuberculato-elevatis, interstitio interiore 

 tuberculo postico majore triangulari, tuberculo apicali elongate, 

 subcylindrico, apicibus obtuse mucronatis ; corpore infra pedibus- 

 que sparse silaceo-pilosis. Long. 8 lin. 



Hob. Victoria. 



Mr. French, of Melbourne, to whom I am indebted for this 

 species, says it is found on young saplings of Eucalyptus vimi- 

 nalis. Possibly it may be sometimes more scaly than in the 

 example before me ; but from the other two species it may be 

 known, inter alia, by the narrow crest-shaped protuberance on 

 the middle of the rostrum and the different form of the apex of 

 the prothorax. A renewed examination of the mouth shows 

 that the maxillee are not covered by the mentum : I have 

 therefore removed the genus from the neighbourhood oiLeptops 

 to the Aterpinse. 



Pachyura vestita. 

 P. suboblonga, nigra, supra pubo suberecta silacea albido griseoque 

 varia, subtus pedibusque albido-pubescentibus ; rostro valido, 

 prothorace breviore, apicem versus latioro ; antennis subtestaceis, 

 pubescentibus, articulo tertio quam primo duplo longiore ; pro- 

 thomce tenuiter granidato-punctato, in medio albo lineato ; scu- 

 teUn* subscutiformi, albido-pubescente ; elytris valde convexis, 

 lateribus subparallelis, apice divaricatis, pone basin utrinque callo 



