470 MB. J. S. T3ALT ON^ aEN-RBA. AND SPECIES 



Terillus squamostjs. Elongafcus, cyliadricus, niger, nitidus, 

 dense albido squaraosus ; labro antennisque piceo-fulvis, his ex- 

 trorsum, tibiis tarsisque anticis piceis ; thorace sub remote punc- 

 tate ; elytris sat fortiter punctatis, interspatiis transversim rugu- 

 losis. Long. Sg lin. 



Hab. Western Australia, Nichol Bay. 



Body densely clotbed with adpressed white scales. Head 

 rather strongly but not very closely punctured, clothed with long 

 slender adpressed white scales ; eyes prominent, rotundate-ovate, 

 slightly sinuate ; antennae slender, more than half the length of 

 the body, second joint shoi't, obovate, the third and fourth each 

 twice as long as the second, equal, the fifth and sixth rather 

 longer, alf?o equal. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded 

 and diverging at the base, thence obliquely converging to the 

 apex, slightly sinuate just behind the middle; above subcylindrical, 

 excavated on the basal margin just in front of the scutellum, 

 impressed, but not very closely, with deep round punctures, 

 clothed with similar scales to those on the head. Scutellum 

 broader than long, its apex broadly rounded. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, parallel, subacutely rounded at the apex, dehis- 

 cent at the sutural angle; above cylindrical, coarsely punctured, 

 the interspaces transversely rugulose ; surface clothed with elon- 

 gate-ovate, very acuminate scales ; besides these, scattered here 

 and there, are a few very long, slender, thread-like, erect hairs. 

 Body beneath and legs densely clothed with linear scales. 



Teeillijs perplexus. Elongatus,subcylindricus,pube adpressa 

 squameiformi albida dense vestitus ; subtus piceus, pedibus abdo- 

 mineque pallidioribus ; supra cupreus, labro antennisque fulvis, 

 harum articulis ultimis apice infuscatis ; thorace tenuiter, sub- 

 remote punctato ; elytris subcrebre punctatis, interspatiis trans-. 

 versim rugulosis. Long. 2^ lin. 



Hob. Western Australia, Nichol Bay. 



Body densely clothed with linear, adpressed, scale-like hairs. 

 Head exserted, vertex and front remotely and finely punctured, 

 impressed in the middle with a shallow longitudinal groove ; 

 clypeus rather more strongly punctured than the upper face ; 

 antennae more than half the length of the body, slender, entirely 

 filiform, fulvous, the apices of the five or six outer joints stained 

 with fuscous ; eyes ovate-rotundate, entire. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long ; sides regularly rounded ; above convex, nitidous, 



