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striae with a row of bristles, each bristle arising from a well-marked 



puncture ; beneath and legs covered with greyish scales mixed with hairs. 



Length, 3| lines. 

 Hab. Champion Bay. 



Myllocerus aplithosus. 



Narrowly ovate, covered with pale yellowish-green scales having a 

 golden tinge, and distinctly mottled with small opaque black spots ; 

 rostrum rather broad, concave for its whole length above, the scrobes 

 not approximate ; antennae ferruginous, covered with greyish scales and 

 hairs, the first and second joints of the funicle of nearly equal length ; 

 prothorax more transverse, the sides well-rounded ; scutellum broader 

 than long ; elytra parallel at the sides, the apex of each a little pro- 

 duced and rounded ; beneath greenish-grey ; legs pale ferruginous with 

 yellowish scales. Length, 3| lines. 



Hab. Cape York. 



Myllocerus rusticus. 



Kobust, broadly ovate, covered greyish-yellow scales mixed on the 

 elytra with sparse recurved hairs ; head small, rostrum short and 

 narrow, rather deeply excavated above ; scrobes oval, not approximate ; 

 antennse brown, first joint of the funicle much longer than the second ; 

 prothorax well-rounded at the sides, much narrowed at the apex ; scu- 

 tellum small, round ; elytra shortly ovate, intervals of the stria? broad, 

 each with a line of sparse short recurved hairs, a large round spot of 

 orange-brown on the declivity and above the apex, the latter not pro- 

 duced; body beneath and legs brown, clothed with greyish scales. 



Length, 4| lines. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



Myllocerus nasutus. 

 Narrowly ovate, everywhere covered with dull whitish scales ; ros- 

 trum with a square outline above, and as broad as the head, excavated 

 towards the apex ; scrobes oblique, not approximated, having entirely a 

 dorsal aspect ; eyes rather prominent ; antennas slender, the first joint 

 of the funicle a little longer than the second; prothorax scarcely 

 rounded at the sides, its base not much broader than the apex ; scu- 

 tellum slightly elongate ; elytra but slightly rounded at the sides, the 

 declivity in some specimens with a brownish tint, the intervals of the 



striae having each a decumbent row of narrower scales. 



Length, 3| lines. 

 Hab. West Australia. 



1, Burlington Road, Westbournc Park, W. August, 1869. 



