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posticfc corbulis cavernosis ; tarsi art. tertio dilatato, profunde 

 diviso ; ultimo mediocri ; unguiculi connati. Abdomen segmento 

 secundo duobus sequentibus conjunctim breviore ; sutura prima 

 recta. 



This very distinct genus belongs to M. Lacordaire's " Episo- 

 mides" and is differentiated from the other genera of the ' groupe^ 

 by the form of its prothorax, and by the obliquity of the anterior 

 angles of the elytra. I have dedicated the species described be- 

 low to the well-known author of the ' Geographical Distribution 

 of the Mammalia,' who has also published many of the insects of 

 the country of which this is a native. 



Zyrcosa Murrayi. (PI. XVII. fig. 7.) Z. supra densius viridi-argen- 

 teo-squamosa, squamis viridi-aureis, et elytiis interrupte nigro-bifa- 

 soiatis; rostrum in medio lincaelevata, nigra, nitida; antennis squamis 

 viridi-aureis tectis, scapo antice nigro-f'asciculato, clava nigra, apice 

 griseo-pubescente ; prothorace elytris paulo angustiore, lateribus ante 

 angulum incurvato, angulo subbasali, supra setulis squamiformibus 

 erectis numernsis ; scutello oblongo, punctiformi ; elytris basi modice 

 convexis, postice constrictis, punctato-striatis (circa sing, sex), punctis 

 oblongis, profundis, approximatis, supra setulis numerosis suberectis ; 

 corpore infra, pedibusque pallide viridi-squamosis. Long. 3| lin. 

 Hab. Old Calabar. 



L^MOSACCus BREViPENNis. L. brevis, fuscus, opacus, supra squa- 

 muUs filiformibus vestitus ; rostro capita longiore, nitido, castaneo, 

 basi rude punctato, dimidio apicali sat remote punctulato ; oculis 

 antice distantibus ; antennis pallide ferrugineis, pilis fulvis dispersis ; 

 prothorace fusco-nebuloso, maciilis indetcrminatis fulveScentibus, lobo 

 mediano vix producto ; scutello punctiformi ; elytris vix longioribus 

 quam latioribus, leviter striato-punctatis, striis basi subflexuosis, ob- 

 scure cinerascentibus, pallide fusco-nebulosis, in medio fascia fusca 

 extus gradatim angustiore ; infra pedibusque rufo-piceis, fulvo-squa- 

 mosis, femoribus anticis validis, subtus dente magno instructis. Long. 

 3 lin. 

 Hab. Queensland. 



One of the largest of the genus, and remarkable for its very 

 short broad elytra. 



LiEMOSACcus TANTULUS. L. oblongus, subparallclus, fuscus, supra 

 dense (?) silaceo-pllosis, rostro capite vix longiore, nigro, subtiliter 

 punctato ; oculis modice approximatis ; antennis brevibus, testaceis, 

 apiccm versus ferrugineis ; prothorace apice subito angustato, trans- 

 verso, confertim punctato, in medio costula abbreviata ; scutello sub- 

 triangulari ; elytris striato-punctatis, iuterstitiis convexis, subtilissime 

 punctatis ; pedibus totis rufis. Long. 1 \ lin. 

 Hab. Western Australia (Champion Bay). 



