MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CTTRCTJLIONID^. 9 



perparum productis, singulatim dorso pallide trivittato, vitta interiore 

 basali abbreviata, irregulariter striato-punctulatis, interstitiis 2. 3, 4. tu- 

 berculis oblongis remotis, singulis seta niinuta instructis, interstitio 

 sexto granulis niagis confeitis munito ; metasterno abdomineque late- 

 ribus griseo-squamosisj in medio longitudinaliter dense silaeeo-pilosis. 

 Long. 9 lin. 

 Hab. South Australia, 



Allied to S. longus, MacLeay, juii., but differently coloured, the 

 rostrum with a central carina, and with smaller and more nume- 

 rous tubercles on the elytra, the second interstice with four, the 

 third with nine or ten, and the fourth with two ; the elytra are 

 about twice and a half as long as the prothorax. 



ScLERORHiNus MOLESTUS. S. elongatus, niger, squamulis minutis 

 silaceis sejunctim tectus ; rostro crasso, carina media fere obsoleta, 

 capiteque squamulis piliformibus sat dense vestitis ; oculis majoribus; 

 clava pedunculata; prothorace transverso, lateribus ampliato, in 

 medio longitudinaliter impresso, granulis depressis subnitidis, singulis 

 seta minuta a basi postiee projecta, munito; elytris prothorace in 

 medio vix latioribus, humeris callosis, apice sat late rotundatis, seria- 

 tim tuberculatis, tuberculis parvis, plerumque subconicis, singulis seta 

 minuta postiee instructis, seriebus secunda quartaque tuberculis sin- 

 gulatim circa quinque gerentibus, interstitio suturali tuberculis multo 

 minoribus, circa 20, instructo ; metasterno abdomineque in medio lon- 

 gitudinaliter dense pilosis. Long. 10 lin. 



Hab. South Australia. 



In many respects like the last, but, inter alia, with the elytra 

 very differently tuberculated ; the third and fifth interstices have 

 about sixteen or seventeen tubercles on each. 



ScLERORHiNUS MARGINATUS. >S'. elongatus, niger, lajte umbrino-squa- 

 mosus, griseoque vittatus; rostro longiore^ in medio linea Isevi nigra 

 ad frontem protensa ; capite rostroque vittis duabus medianis, lateri- 

 bus et supra oculos griseis; oculis majoribus; clava elliptica; pro- 

 thorace transverso, utrinque rotundato, granulis minusculis sat re- 

 motis munito, dorso trivittato, pitta intermedia angusta ; elytris pro- 

 thorace triple longioribus, confertim granulatis et tuberculatis, gra- 

 nulis plerumque proxime suturam obsitis, tuberculis parvis conicis, 

 apice singulorum seta recurva instructo, sutura, vitta humerali margi- 

 nibusque exterioribus griseis; metasterno abdomineque ad latera 

 griseo-plagiatis, in medio longitudinaliter dense silaeeo-pilosis ; pedi- 

 bus griseis, nigro irroratis ; tarsis posticis linearibus. Long. 9 lin. 

 (rost. inch). 



Hab. South Australia. 



This species may be compared to S. pilularius ; but it has a nar- 



