112 Christmas Island. 



61. Acicnemis andrewsi, Gahan, sp.n. 



Minor, angustior, nigro - picea, ochraceo - brunneo - squamosa et 

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

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

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

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

 punctato, antice constricto, supra sparse irregulariterque 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 litcram V formantibus paullo pone banc fasciam ; 

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

 tibiis omnibus annulo lato fusco supra medium notatis. 



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



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

 brown colour, but mixed witb otbers forming small bands and 

 spots of a vs^bitisb and dark-brown colour ; tbe most distinct of 

 tbese being a sbort sinuately transverse white band at tbe middle 

 of tbe elytra, and a V-sbaped fuscous band placed a little posterior 

 to it. Eostrum scarcely longer than tbe anterior femora, dark 

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

 Antenna? inserted at tbe middle of tbe rostrum, reddish brown, 

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

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

 visible ; protborax 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 sette like those present also on the protborax 

 and elytra. 



62. Camptorhinus crinipes, Gahan, sp.n. 



Squamis ocbraceo - brunneis et griseis dense vestitus, capite 

 rostrique basi confertim punctulatis ; prothorace confertim sat 

 fortiterque punctato, antice in medio leviter carinato ; dense 

 squamoso, squamis ad latera et in medio disco (praesertim prope 

 basin) pallidioribus ; elytris seriatim fortiterque punctatis, inter- 

 stitiis alternis magis elevatis et breviter setosis ; pedibus elongatis, 

 femoribus anticis intermediisque subtus dente parva, femoribus 

 posticis dente validiore, armatis ; tibiis omnibus intus longe 

 fulvo-pilosis, articulis duobus primis tarsorum quoque pilis fulvis 

 longis fimbriatis. 



