444 mh. f. p. pascoe on the curcultonidjb. 



Cftllo semilunari instructor scutello subtriangukri, apice rotundato ; 

 elytra breviter trigona, seriatim foveata, fovese irregulares, oblongae, 

 vel lineares, aliae rotundatae, interstitiis punctulatis ; infra pedibusque 

 fusco-brunneis, pilis adpressis fulvescentibus tenuiter vestitis ; an- 

 tennis fusco-ferrugineis, clava griseo-tomentosa. Long. 5^ lin. 

 Hab. Gold Coast. 



The type of the genus, M. turritus, is covered with a sort of 

 farinaceous exudation mixed with short hairs ; but the present 

 species has only a very thin, almost obsolete, pubescence above, 

 chiefly on the head and prothorax. 



Syarbis sciurus. 8. oblongus, compressus, subnudus, rufescens sparse 

 punctatus, puncto singulo medio squamam griseam ferente; rostro 

 crasso, sat dense griseo-squamuloso ; prothorace conico, irregulariter 

 punctato, longitudine latitudini sequali; elytris valde convexis, basi 

 prothorace sesqui latioribus, iitrinque ad apicem subparallelis, deinde 

 rotnndatis, seriatim punctatis, humeris calloso-produetis, pallide ru- 

 fescentibus, basi maculaque obliqua pone medium fusco-rufis ; infra, 

 pedibusque rufescentibus. Long. l| lin. 

 Hab, Western Australia (Nicol Bay). 



A narrower and more compressed form than S. pachypus, 

 which is also of an entirely dark ferruginous colour. Another 

 species in my collection is possibly identical with Acroteriasvs 

 nubilus, Eoelofs *, or rather with A. emarginaius, if the two be 

 not identical ; but there is no appearance in my examples of the 

 "semicircular depression" on the last abdominal segment, whicli 

 has induced M. Hoelofs to separate it from the first-named 

 species. 



SvARBis GONiPTEROiDES. Si rufo-brunncus, squamositate sordide 

 grisea omnino tectus, rostro erasso ; prothorace conico, sparsim punc- 

 tato ; scutello oblongo-ovali ; elytris clavatis, basi fere duplo latiori- 

 bus quam basis prothoracis, seriato-punctatis, utrinque gradatim an- 

 gustatis, singulo basin versus callo mediano instructis, humeris obli- 

 quis, calloso-produetis; infra pedibusque squamis oblongis pallide 

 ocliraceis dispersis. Long. 3 lin. 

 }lab. Western Australia (Nicol Bay). 



The larger size, the elevated elytra narrowing rather rapidly 

 behind, basal tubercles, &c. render this an easily recognized 

 species. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belgique, x., p. 2 of the " Extrait." The genus Acrote- 

 riaaus had been published by me two years before under the name of Syarbis, 

 Journ. of Entom. ii. 423. 



