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lateribus basique flavescenti-villosis ; scixtello depresso ; elytris 

 brevibus, lateraliter paulo rotundatis, striato-punctatis, inter- 

 stitiis transversim corrugatis, regione scutellari apicibusque fla- 

 vescenti-Tillosis ; tibiis anticis intermediisque brevibus. Loug. 

 Iflin. 



Hah. West Australia (Champion Bay). 



A shorter species than the last, and with a more abniptly 



gibbous prothorax ; it has, moreover, a remarkably short 



rostrum. 



Lcemosaccus querulus. 



L. breviusculus, niger, elytris pedibusque ferrugineis ; capite ros- 

 troque sat leviter punctatis ; hoc perbrcvi, recto ; autennis ferru- 

 gineis ; ocidis baud approximatis ; protborace transverse, valde 

 convexo, creberrime punctato, vittis tribus indeterminatis flaves- 

 centi-villosis decorate ; scutello transverse ; elytris brevibus, 

 sparse subtiliter villosis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis fere obsolete 

 granulatis, plagis nigricantibus rare subnotatis ; tibiis anticis in- 

 termediisque brevibus. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. West Australia ; Victoria. 



With a short, straight rostrum, as in the last, this species 

 has, inter alia, a smaller and less rounded eye, the posterior 

 margin being a little incurved ; the villosity is also consider- 

 ably less condensed. The tooth on the anterior femora 

 is almost obsolete. 



Lcemosaccus tarsalis. 

 L. subangustus, nigricans, submaculatim croceo-villosus ; capite ma- 

 juscule, subtransverse ; rostro perbrevi, recto, crebre punctato ; 

 oeulis prominulis, antice baud approximatis ; antennis fulvescen- 

 tibus, clava magna nigricante ; protborace modice convexo, crebre 

 punctato, in medio linea impressa abbreviata; scutello parve; 

 elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis subtiliter punctulatis ; tibiis 

 apice tarsisque fulvescentibus, tibiis anticis brevibus, compressis ; 

 segmento secundo abdominis breviusculo. Long. 1 ^ lin. 



Hah. Champion Bay. 



A small, naiTOwish species, with the head unusually broad. 



Lcemosaccus magdaloides. 

 L. angustus, niger, subnitidus ; capite transverse ; rostro perbrevi, 

 sparse punctulato ; oeulis vix prominulis, subapproximatis ; an- 

 tennis fulvescentibus, clava minuscula ; protborace parum longiore 

 quam latiore ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis paulo convexis, 

 transversim granulatis ; femoribus apice, tibiis tarsisque fulves- 

 centibus, tibiis anticis perbrevibus valde compressis; tarsis 

 articulo idtime unguiculisque minutis ; segmento secundo abdo- 

 minis breviusculo. Long. 1 1 lin. 

 Hah. Champion Bay. 



