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the striae with small punctures ; their clothing is variegate, but of the 

 same colours as that of the thorax; the darker scales, however, do not 

 form well-defined spots ; the interstices bear numerous fine, short setae, 

 as does the thorax also. The legs are clothed like the body. 



Closely allied to C. alba, but. differing in colour and elytral sculpture ; 

 the intermediate interstices of the elytra are visibly elevated, and the 

 punctures are far less obvious than in that species. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2\ lines; breadth, quite I. 



I found one specimen in the same locality as the preceding one. 



1230. C. diSCOrs, n.s. Body piceous, covered with griseous 

 scales and fine setoe, exactly similar to those observable in the other 

 species. 



AntcnncB moderate, scape scaly ; funiculus shining, with a few fine 

 hairs; the second joint almost as long as the first, the succeeding ones 

 gradually incrassated so that the seventh is nearly as broad as the base of 

 the rather small club. Prothorax transversal, yet rather longer than 

 usual, widest in front of the middle. Elytra wider than thorax, obovate, 

 their humeral angles ot at all oblique ; bearing very obsolete, punctulate 

 striae. Legs castaneous. 



It would be absurd to institute a new genus for the reception of this 

 species, which accords structurally with the typical one in every respect, 

 except the anteriorly dilated thorax, and obovate elytra, not in the least 

 degree narrowed at the base. 



Length (rost. excl.), i|; breadth, nearly i line. 



Described from one example found at Marsden Point. 



Group CYLINDRORHINID^E (P. 438). 

 Inophlceus (p. 439)- 



1231. I. mbidus, n.s. Broad, slightly convex ; dark red, covered 

 with small flat, reddish-grey scales and pallid setae. 



Rostrum feebly tri-carinate, nude, punctate at apex. Prothorax 

 broader than long, widest before the middle, narrowed, but not sinuously, 

 behind ; there is a large depression at each side behind the middle, and 

 a smaller one in front of them, with a few obtuse elevations between 

 them. Scutellum depressed. Elytra large, cordiform, considerably 

 broader than the thorax, with obtusely-rounded shoulders and acuminate 

 apices; each elytron is divided into three longitudinal spaces by two 

 obtuse and but little raised costae, which at the summit of the posterior 

 declivity become tubercular ; each of these divisions contains two rows of 

 punctures, the punctures being alternately large and small ; the suture is 

 elevated along the sides of the scutellum, thus causing the latter to 

 appear more deeply sunk than it really is ; they are convex transversely, 

 and rather abruptly narrowed behind. Antenna finely hispid, the two 

 basal joints of the funiculus elongate and nearly equal; the others are 

 obconical, and differ but little from one another; club oval; 4-articu- 

 late. Under-side squamose, with many decumbent pallid setse. Legs 

 moderate. 



Length (rost. incl.), 3$- lines; breadth, if. 



