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■would probably have instituted a " groupe " for its reception. In 

 its habit, I think, the genus approximates unmistakably to Aoploc- 

 nemis. There are apparently three species, differing principally in 

 outline ; but one of them is somewhat intermediate ; so, for the 

 present, I regard them as belonging to one variable form. 



Nkmbstra incerta. (PI. XII. fig .5.) JV. rufo-ferrugineavel nigra, 

 albo- cervino- vel subaureo-squaniosa ; capite rostrique dimidio basali 

 ercbrc punctntis, puncto singulo squama alba replete, hoc basi tri- 

 angulariter excavato, dimidio apical! minus punctate ; antennis ferru- 

 gineis, griseo-pilosis ; prothorace utrinque ampliato-rotundate, vel 

 vix ampliato, dorse valde vel raodice convexo, crebre punctate, inter 

 puncttt plus minusve granulate, medio lateribusque basi sub.aureo- 

 squameso ; elytris protherace multo latioribus, bumeris valde productis, 

 obliquis, suleate-punctatis, interstitiis granulis depressis sat remote 

 uniscriatim instructis, marginibus exterioribus dcnsissimc albo-squa- 

 mosis; corpore infra dense argeuteo-squamoso ; pedibus minus 

 squaniosis. Long. 2\-3\ lin. 



Hob. West Australia (Fremantle). 



Nedtleda. 



(ErirhininsB.) 



Dorytomo affinis, sed tibicB anticae recta), apice inermes ; coxce po- 

 sticse distantes ; et processus intercoxalis late truncatus. 



I follow Lacordaire in separating Dorytomus, Steph., from ^ri- 

 rhinus, Schon., principally on account of the absence of ocular lobes; 

 and probably division will have to be carried still further, even for 

 the European species. To the above characters it may bo added 

 that the eye is unusually narrow and distant about its own breadth 

 from the prothorax, finely facetted, and the claws are approximate. 



Nedyleda semiusta. (PI. XII. fig. 9.) N. nigra, elytris, basi ex- 

 ceptis, nitide fulyo-ferrugineis ; restre protherace breviere, fulvo- 

 ferruginee, basi uigro ; oculis anguste ovatis, a pretberace medice di- 

 stantibus; antennis fulvo-ferrugineis, clava nigra; funicule artieulo 

 basali valido, secunde breviter obcenice, cajteris transversis ; protho- 

 race transverse, crebre punctate, subalbide-squameso ; elytris late 

 ovatis, seriatim punctatis, interstitiis latis, planatis ; corpore infra 

 nigro, sat dense argenteo-squameso ; femeribus, apice exceptis, nigris, 

 tibiis tarsisque fulvo-ferrugineis, parce albo-pilesis. Long. 1 \ lin. 



Hab. West Australia. 



This and most of the species from West Australia described in 

 this paper were collected by Mr. Duboulay of Champion Bay. 



