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submoniliform, the last transverse and rather thicker thaa 

 the sixth ; club oblong-oval. 



Eyes moderately large, subrotundate, and slightly convex. 

 Ocular lobes feebly developed. Corbels without any apparent 

 truncate surface outside the posterior tarsi, but ciliate there. 

 Scrobes almost visible from above, obsolete near the eyes. 

 Terminal ventral segment with an elongate central fovea. 



We have no other species exactly like this. 



S . Length (rostr. incl.) 3, breadth 1^ lines. 



Ida Valle}^ 



Another of Mr. Lewis's captures. 



Obs. — A second example exhibits numerous irregular 

 pitchy-brown spots on the wing-cases and an ill-defined dark 

 space near each side of the throat, and the fifth abdominal 

 segment is unimpressed. The hind body is slightly broader. 

 This probably is the female. 



Catoptes eyens, sp. n. 



Convex, subovate, rufo-fuscous, antennse and tarsi paler ; 

 covered with small, rounded, yellowish-grey scales, and with 

 series of erect grey setce on the elytra. 



Rostrum shorty parallel-sided, not ridged, apex setose. 

 Antennce setigerous ; scape gradually and considerably iu- 

 crassate, but not clavate, it attains the back of the eye ; 

 funiculus elongate, second joint more slender than the first 

 and nearly as long as that is. Eyes oblique, subrotundate. 

 Thorax almost as long as broad, moderately rounded late- 

 rally, feebly constricted in front, not uneven above, rather 

 finely punctate. Scutellum small. Elytra oviform, wider 

 than thorax at base, shoulders rounded ; their punctuation 

 cjTute serial, third interstices only indistinctly elevated, 

 without nodosities. Lec/s stout, setose, tibiae flexuous. 



Underside fusco-rufous, head and prosternum with grey 

 scales, the abdomen with grey hairs. The prosternum in- 

 curved in front. Ocular lobes feebly developed. Apical 

 ventral segment with a broad fovea-like impression occupying 

 quite half of the width. 



Undoubtedly allied to Sharp's C. brevicornis, but smaller, 

 without variegation, and with a longer thorax. The eyes 

 differ from those of C obliquisignatus in being more rotuu- 

 date. C. vastator has the rostrum medially carinate and 

 more expanded in front. Its thorax is widest near the front. 

 The third and fifth elytral interstices are nodiform behind. 



Length (rostr. incl.) If, breadth f line. 



Ida Valley. 



My specimen was found by INIr. Lewis. 



