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Storeus majusculiis, BLACKB. Hab.: N. S.Wales, Sydney. 



Stot-eiis constietus, LEA. Hab.: Queensland, Peak Downs. 



Bhaciodes dentifer, BOH. Hab.: N.S.Wales, Sydney. 



Cyttalia sydneyensis, Blackb. Hab.: Australia. 



JEthas eruditas, BLACKB. Hab.: N.S.Wales, Sydney. 



JUniopea sydneyensis, BLACKB. Hab.: Australia, 



Eniopea tenebricosa, BLACKB. Hab.: Australia. 



JSniopea bivittata, n. sp. 



Male. Beddish - castaneous, scutelhun somewhat darker. Densely 

 clotlied with white scales, sometiraes (especially on under surface) feebly 

 tinged with blue; parts of upper surface with pale brown scales. 



Kostruin about the length of prothorax, moderately curved; with 

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

 Prothorax apparently slightly longer than wide, sides moderately 

 ronnded, base distinctly wider than apex; with dense round punctures 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-pnnctate, punctures rather large but almost 

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

 (exclnding rostrum) 2 1 /i — 3 mm. 



Female. 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 clothed, whilst in the male they are depressed in 

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

 The female also is without an exserted pygidium. 



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

 and A. M. LEA). 



In build much like E. amcena (from W. Australia) but femora not 

 blackish in the middle, a much 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. posticalis, sydneyensis, and 

 subccerulea all have different 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 whole of its sides. The brownish scales 

 nearly always form two distinct vittae, separated only by a very narrow 

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

 scales are almost absent. On the el) r tra 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 deflned; occasionally 



