112 Christmas Island. 



61. Acicnemis andrewsi, Gahan, sp.n. 



Minor, angustior, nigro - picea, ocliraceo - bninneo - squamosa et 

 sparse albo-setosa, supra albido fuscoque variegata ; rostro arcuato, 

 piceo, quam femoribus anticis vix longiore, basi confertim punctate ; 

 antennis ferrugineis, ad medium rostri insertis, articulo 2° quam 1° 

 sesqui-longiore, clava fusiforme, sub-solida ; protborace confertim 

 punctate, antice constricto, supra sparse iiTegulariterque nigro- 

 granulato, disco medio squamis brunnascentibus, lateribus squamis^ 

 albidis vestito ; elytris quam protborace latioribus, punctato-striatis, 

 interstitiis antice remote nigro - granulatis, ocbraceo - brunneo - 

 squamosis, fascia parva transversa ad medium albida, fasciis duabus 

 obliquis nigris literam V formantibus paullo pone banc fasciam -, 

 maculis parvis nigris et albidis inter banc fasciam et basin, dispersis ; 

 tibiis omnibus annulo bxto fusco supra medium notatis. 



Long. 3-5-5-5, lat. 1 "5-2 mm. 



Densely covered witb scales, wbicb are mostly of an ocbreous- 

 brown colour, but mixed witb others forming small bands and 

 spots of a whitish and dark-brown colour ; the most distinct of 

 these being a short sinuately transverse white band at the middle 

 of the elytra, and a V-shaped f ascous band placed a little posterior 

 to it. Rostrum scarcely longer than the anterior femora, dark 

 brown, closely punctured, and more or less squamous at the base. 

 Antennae inserted at the middle of the rostrum, reddish brown, 

 second joint of the funiculus very little more than half the length 

 of the third, club fusiform, with two articular sutures faintlj 

 visible ; prothorax constricted at the apex, very closely punctured 

 and densely squamose, ochreous-brown on the middle of the disk, 

 dirty-white, with brownish patches on the sides ; with sparsely 

 scattered black granules on the disk. Elytra punctate-striate, 

 interstices with rather widely separated black granules. Proximal 

 half of each tibia almost entirely dark brown in colour, distal half 

 whitish ; femora covered with luteous scales, sparsely mixed with 

 short flattened white setce like those present also on the prothorax 

 and elytra. 



62. Camptorhinus crinipes, Gahan, sp.n. 



Squamis ocbraceo - brunneis et griseis dense vestitus, capite 

 rostrique basi confertim punctulatis ; protborace confertim sat 

 fortiterque punctate, antice in medio leviter carinato ; dense 

 squamose, squamis ad latera et in medio disco (pra^sertim prope 

 basin) pallidioribus ; elytris seriatim fortiterque punctatis, inter- 

 stitiis alternis magis elevatis et breviter setosis ; pedibus elongatis, 

 femoribus anticis intermediisque subtus. dente parva, femoribus 

 pesticis dente validiore, armatis ; tibiis omnibus intus longe 

 fulvo-pilesis, articulis duobus primis tarserum quoque pilis fulvis 

 longis fimbriatis. ...^ .,.:•. 



