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crasso ; antennis ferrugineis, sat incrassatis, funiculi articulo ultimo 

 Bubtransverso ; prothorace breviter subconico, supra vittis tribus 

 e squamis condensatis subnotato ; scutello rotundato ; elytris basi 

 parum convexis, humeris baud prominulis, tuberculo subhumerali 

 nuUo, lateribus subparallelis, apicibus subacuminatis, striato- 

 punetatis, singulatim fascia arcuata obLiqua, extime ampliata, 

 suturam versus postice sensim angustiore, aliquando fascia vel 

 macula subobsoleta posteriore, e squamulis albidis condensatis, 

 ornatis ; corpore infra pedibusque ferrugineis, parce squamulosis. 

 Long, 2i lin. 



Hah. Queensland. 



This pretty little species is not veiy obviously related to 

 any of its congeners ; it agrees with the following, as well as 

 with G. cionoides^ in having no subhumeral tubercle. 



Gonipterus turhidus. 



O. subovatus, niger, squamositate fusca, squamisque elongatis nu- 

 merosis albidis vestitus ; capitis fronte profunde canaliculata ; 

 rostro tenuiore, magis elongato ; antennis ferrugineis, panic in- 

 crassatis ; prothorace subconico, longitudine latitudini aequali ; 

 scutello oblongo ; elytris modice convexis, tuberculo subhumerali 

 nuUo, lateribus subparallelis, apicibus submucronatis, sulcato- 

 foveatis, singulatim postice macula indistincta albida notatis ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque sejunctim albido-squamosis ; tarsis arti- 

 culo ultimo breviusculo. Long. 2| Hu. 



Hah. Tasmania? 



The short terminal joint of the tarsi affords an approach to 

 Syarhis^ in which it is altogether wanting. Schonherr, it is 

 true, gives this as a character of Gonipterus, evidently, how- 

 ever, only in contrast to Entimus^ with which he compares it. 

 It is singular that this acute entomologist should never have 

 recognized the affinity of this genus to Oxyops : so close, in- 

 deed, is it, that it seems to me no valid distinction can be 

 drawn between them, the slightly prominent mesosternum of 

 Gonipterus diifering in no great degree from the more promi- 

 nent and pointed organ of Oxyops. It is remarkable, too, 

 that these genera are the only ones, with one exception, in 

 which the characters of the under parts are alluded to in the 

 long descriptions given in his voluminous work on the Curcu- 

 lionidae. 



Meriphus longirostris. 



M. fusco-piceus, supra setulis griseis parce, infra squamulis albidis 

 sejunctim vestitus ; rostro, apice excepto, ferrugineo, oblongo- 

 punctulato, prothorace plus triplo longiore ; antennis subferrugi- 

 neis, scapo oculum baud attingente, clava tenuata ; prothorace 

 manifeste granulate : elytris subtrigonatis, basi prothorace duple 



