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longiori parum latiori, angulis posticis retrorsum productis. 
acutis carinatis; elytris prothoraci latitudine equalibus, 
apice breviter submucronatis, subtiliter striatis, striis sat 
subtiliter minus crebre punctulatis, interstitiis planis crebre 
subtiliter punctulatis; antennarum articulo ultimo ad apicem 
breviter subappendiculato. Long., 16—13 1.; lat., 44} ]. 
N. Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. French. 
TENEBRIONID. 
SPILOSCAPHA. 
S. thalloides, Pasc. This species (described by Mr. Pascoe as a 
Platydema) is certainly a Spiloscapha. Mr. Bates (E.M.M., EX., 
203) has already expressed the opinion that the description of 
P. thalloides reads like that of S. crassicornis. Examples before 
me are certainly P. thalloides, equally certainly a Spzloscapha, 
and scarcely less certainly S. crassicornis, Bates,—which name 
consequently should be regarded as a synonym of Mr. Pascoe’s 
name. 
BRENTHID. 
HORMOCERUS. 
H. fossulatus, sp. nov. Griseo-brunneus, prothoracis sulco intus 
plus minusve flavescenti; opacus; rostro quam prothorax 
vix breviori, postice longitudinaliter sulcato ; antennis quam 
rostrum multo brevioribus, robustis, articulis (basali apicali- 
que exceptis) transversis ; prothorace longitudinaliter pro- 
funde sulcato, ad latera grosse vix crebre punctulatis, antice 
angustato ; elytris sulcatis, sulcis grosse punctulatis, inter- 
stitiis costulatis. 
Maris rostro recto ad apicem dilatato ; prothorace quam latiori 
duplo longiori; elytris ad apicem late explanatis ; abdominis 
segmentis basalibus 2 late profunde concavis. 
Feminz rostro manifeste arcuato; prothorace quam latiori 
sesquilongiori ; elytris ad apicem vix explanatis ; abdominis 
segmentis basalibus 2 grosse vermiculatis, haud concavis. 
Long. (rostr. excepto), 8—10 1. ; lat., L;—1,% |. 
The genus Hormocerus has not, I believe, been previously re- 
corded as Australian. The above species is clothed with a kind 
of dust-like squamosity which however is wanting on the front 
half of the rostrum and is very sparse on the disc of the pro- 
thorax. The antenne are inserted (in the male scarcely, in the 
female distinctly) behind the middle of the rostrum. 
N. Queensland ; Cairns ; sent to me by Mr. Froggatt and Mr. 
Masters. 
