22 ME. p. p. PASCOE ON THE CTJECULIONIDiE. 



Eostrum broad, with a straight edge on each side. 



SclerorJiinus, MacLeay, jun. 

 Eostrum narrow .... ChriotypJms, n. g. 

 Base of the prothorax not closely applied to the elytra. 



MolocTitus, n. g. 

 Scape not extending to the posterior border of the eye. 



Alexirhea, n. g. 



Mtoteotus. 



Caput antice convexum, integrum; rostrum crassum, versus 

 apicem triaugulariter excavatum ; scrohes arcuatse, ab oculos 

 distantes, postice bene limitatse. Scapus brevis, gradatim in- 

 crassatus ; funiculus validus. OcuU tenuiter granulati. JPro- 

 thorax transversus, lobis ocularibus prominulis, oculos fere 

 obtegentibus. Elytra ovata, basi incurvata. Tarsi breves, 

 sublineares, articulis tribus basalibus angulis terminalibus 

 spinosis, ciliatis. Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis sub- 

 aequalibus. 



It is not without hesitation that I place this genus among the 

 short-scaped forms of Amycterinje ; but its large ocular lobes 

 nearly covering the eyes in repose, and a certain resemblance in 

 its contour, induce me to think that it is nearer to Amorphorhinus 

 than to any other genus, although some of the Talaurini are not 

 very dissimilar. The abdomen in the following species is of a 

 remarkably square form, the last segment being as large as the 

 three preceding together ; it is also thickly clothed with golden- 

 brown spine-like hairs. 



Myotrotus obtusus. (Pi. II. fig. 5.) M. subovatus, paulo plana- 

 tus, squamositate obscure umbriua tectus, setis nigris erecte ad- 

 spersus ; capite rostroque dense squamosis, hoc basi utrinque modice 

 excavate ; antenuis dense squamosis ; funiculo articulis duobus basa- 

 libus breviusculis, cseteris valde transversis ; clava breviter elliptica ; 

 prothorace ad latera paulo ampliato, granulis depressis irregulariter 

 adsperso ; elytris postice gradatim latioribus, ad apicem declivibus, 

 apice ipso late rotundato, dorso, regione suturali excepta, insequaliter 

 subtiliter granulatis ; corpore infra pedibusque, unguiculis soils excep- 

 tis, dense griseo -squamosis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hob. Queensland (Rockhampton). 



Catach^nus scintillans. C. ovatus, supra, capite, rostro pedi- 

 busque squamis margaritaceo-vhidibus, in certa luce splendide aureo- 



