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diatantes. Antenna; mediocres ; scapo breviubculo, clavato, 

 oculuin hand attingcnte ; funictdo 7-articulato, art. duobus ba- 

 salibus tequaliter elongatis, prinio crassiore, csetoris turbinatis, 

 aenaiin validioribus ; clava magna, lateovata, Prothoraoc medio 

 plunatus, semicircularia, apice productus, caput occiiltante,lobi3 

 ocularibus mauifestis. Elytra prothorace baud latiora, dorso 

 planata, epipleuris diatinctis, verticalibus. Pedes breviusculi ; 

 femora valida, compressa, inermia, infi-a canaliculata ; tibice 

 breves, compressa?, unco valido terminatse ; tarsi modice elon- 

 • gati, art. duobus primis angustirf, tertio bilobo, ultimo elongato ; 

 unquieuli liberi. Rima pectoralis inter coxas auticas profunda 

 ibique desiuens. Mesosternum latum, antice elevato-margina- 

 tum. Abdomen segmento secuudo duobus sequentibus con- 

 juiictim longiore. 



_ A genus with a very peculiar habit, allied to Anaballus and 

 Acalles, but with a short broad rostrum and the head invisible from 

 above. The type is a small brown insect, perfectly flat, and sur- 

 rounded, except at the apex of the elytra, by an elevated fold 

 or carina, which is posteriorly on each side crowned by four or live 

 roughish tubei'cles, below which descends the epipleura, itself 

 marked by two very strong costse, which are joined at the shoulder, 

 causing a well-marked projection. 



Imalithus patella. (PI. XIX. fig. 2.) 7. subovatus, fuscus, squa- 

 mositate pallidiore vestitus ; rostro apice ])aulo dilatato, fusco-ferru- 

 gineo, nudo, subtiliter punctate ; antennis nitidis, testaceo-ferru- 

 gineis ; prothorace impunctato, suLnudo, in medio tiiangnlariter 

 impresso, apice lateribusqiie fortiter elevato-marginato ; scutello 

 punctiformi, distincto ; elytris seriatim punctatis, carina tuberculata 

 valdc elevata marginatis, epipleuris fortiter bicostatis, costa superiore 

 postice trituberculata, caeteris costarum squamis patentibus tectis; 

 infra pedibusque obscure griseo-squamosis. Long. 2| bn. 

 Hub. Queensland (Clarence River?). 



Flatytekes. 

 ( Cryptorhynchinai.) 

 Caput parvum ; rostrum gracile, capite duplo lougius, basi incras- 

 satum ; scrobes obliquaj, subbasales. Oculi rotundati, supra 

 modice approximate Antennae mediocres ; scapo brcvi, oculos 

 attingente : funiculo 7-art., articulis 1° 2''que obconicis, modice 

 elongatis, prime crassiore, caeteris seusim brevioribus et latio- 

 ribus ; clava robusta, ovali. Prothoraoc transversus, supra de- 

 pressus, utrinque rotundatus, apice angustus, supra produ- 



