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A. M. Lea. 



Storeus majusciilus, BLACKS. Hab.: N. S.Wales, Sydney. 



Storeiis constietus, LEA. Hab.; Queensland, Peak Downs. 



Jlhnriodes dentlfer, BOH. Hab.: N.S.Wales, Sydney. 



Cyttnlia sydneyensi.s, BLACKB. Hab.: Australia. 



Ethas eruclitas, BLACKS. Hab.: N. S. Wales, Sydney. 



Eniopea sydneyetisis, BLACKB. Hab.: Australia. 



Eniopea tenebricosa, BLACKB. Hab.: Australia. 



Eniopea bivittata, n. sp. 



Male. Eeddish-castaneous, scutellum soniewhat darker. Densely 

 clothed with white scales, sometimes (especially on under surface) feebly 

 tinged with blue; parts ot upper .'«urface with pale brown scales. 



Rostrum about the length of prothorax, moderately curved; with 

 dense punctures but more or less concealed except on apical thiixl. 

 Prothorax apparently slightly louger than wide, sides niodei-ately 

 rounded, base distinctly wider than apex; with dense round punctiu-es of 

 moderate size, but normally quite concealed. Elytra elongate-cordate, 

 distinctly wider than prothorax, each separately rounded at base, parallel- 

 sided to about middle; striate-punctate, punctures rather large but alniost 

 concealed; third interstice with a feeble node beyond tlie middle. Length 

 (excluding rostnnn) 2V2 — 3 mm. 



Fe male. Differs from the male in having the rostrum longer 

 thinner and more evenly curved, with smaller and less concealed punctures; 

 the antennse inserted at about one-third instead of one-fourth from apex 

 of rostrum. The two basal Segments of its abdomen are also evenly 

 convex and uniformly clotlied, wliilst in the male they are depressed in 

 the middle with the clotliing there rather more setose than elsewhere. 

 The female also is without an exserted pygidiuni. 



Hab.: N.S.Wales (Belgian Museum), Sydney (Hamburg Museum 

 and A. M. Lea). 



In build mucli like E. amwna (from W. Australia) but femora not 

 blackish in the middle, a nuich greater proportion of the scales white, 

 and elytra with two nodes. E. tenebricosa also has the femora partly 

 dark and the clothing very different; E. posiicaJis, sydneyensis, and 

 suhccerulea all have diiferent clothing. It is an abundant species about 

 Sydney. 



On the prothorax the pale scales clothe rather more than half of 

 the Upper surface, and the Avhole of its sides. The brownish scales 

 nearly always form two distinct ^^tt?e, separated only by a very narrow 

 median line of white scales, but on an occasional specimen the brownish 

 scales are almost absent. On the elytra they are also sometimes absent, 

 but they usually form a distinct irregulär spot on each side extending 

 from the base to about the middle, but not sharply defined; occasionally 



