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than broad ; scutelltmi punctiform ; elytra without bristles, the scales 



uniform throughout ; legs reddish ferruginous with grey scales. 



Length, 2 lines. 

 Sab. Gawler. 



EPHEEINA. 



Eostrum longer than the head, and nearly as broad, increasing a 

 little towards the apex, which is eniarginate, three raised lines above, 

 each of the two lateral lines terminating in the raised edge round the 

 scrobe, the middle line extending to the apex ; scrobes commencing at 

 the apex, extending backwards and gradually disappearing near the 

 eyes. Antennae very long, scape clavate, extending to the elytra ; 

 funicle 7-jointed, the first joint longest, the second twice as long as 

 the third, the latter equal with the remainder ; club ovate, pedunculate. 

 Prothorax equal in length and breadth, the sides rounded. Elytra 

 narrowly ovate. Legs moderately long; femora thickened in the middle; 

 anterior tibiee straight, with the inner edge sinuate ; tarsi rather long, 

 the penultimate joint (fig. 2a) broadly lobed. Metasternum long. Abdo- 

 men as in the preceding. 



The above definition will probably require some modification, in 

 the event of other species being discovered ; but the general characters 

 of the rostrum and scrobes show that the genus is very distinct. 



Epherina longicornis. (fig. 2.) 



Elongate, black, covered with dull greyish scales; antennae extending 

 to the end of the elytra ; prothorax apparently constricted at the base 

 and apex, wlrich are of equal breadth ; scutellum nearly semi-circular ; 

 elytra nearly twice the breadth of the prothorax at the base, the anterior 

 two-thirds of the sides nearly parallel, then gradually rounded but a 

 little produced at the apices, the interstices of the strise with a line of 

 whitish bristles ; legs dark ferruginous, with greyish scales. 



Length, 1\ lines. 



Hob. Champion Bay. 



MYLTiOCEEITS. 



Schonherr, Disp., Cure. Meth., p. 178 ; Lacordaire, Gen., vi, p. 213. 



Schonherr gives as one of the essential characters of this genus, 

 thorax "jpostice bisinuatus" but a few species have been admitted into 

 it having the base of the prothorax truncate. The character is, how- 

 ever, so persistent in a large number of species, that it appears to me 

 to be desirable to exclude all those in which it does not exist. The 

 species of this genus are numei'ous ; three are found on the borders 



