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Rostrum rather wide, almost straight, about the length 

 of prothorax in female, slightly shorter in male : basal two- 

 thirds with coarse seriate punctures, and with five or seven 

 feeble costae, apical third with smaller and elongate but 

 scarcely seriate punctures. Prothorax more than twice as 

 wide as long, base feebly sinuated ; with small, dense, and 

 more or less concealed punctures. Elytra about one-thjrd 

 wider than prothorax, sides feebly dilated to middle, scarcely 

 longer than wide; with regular rows of not very large and 

 partially-concealed punctures ; interstices much wider than 

 punctures, and with numerous small but partially -concealed 

 granules and punctures. Femora strongly unidentate ; front 

 tibiae rather strongly bisinuate, basal sinus slightly shorter 

 than the other. Length, 3^-4 mm. 



Hah—New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko, 5,700-6,000 

 ft. (R. Helms), Blue Mountains (E. W. Ferguson), Mount 

 Victoria (A. M. Lea). 



Of the three specimens before me one is almost piceous, 

 but with the antennas (including the club) paler ; a second is 

 of a rather light-reddish-brown, but with the apical two-thirds 

 of the club almost black; the other is intermediate between 

 these two, but its club is entirely pale, and the basal two-thirds 

 of its rostrum almost black. The white scales are dense on the 

 under surface and legs, and rather thickly scattered on the 

 head, base of rostrum, and flanks of prothorax. The ochreous 

 ones are rather thickly but evenly scattered on the prothorax 

 (here, however, they are sometimes replaced by white ones) 

 and sparsely on the elytra, except that they are dense about 

 the scutellum (on one specimen they are dense almost to 

 the shoulders) and on the second and third interstices towards 

 the apex. The black scales are numerous (but from some 

 directions indistinct) on prothorax and elytra, less numerous 

 on the upper surface of the legs, and sparse on the head. 

 The median costa of the rostrum is almost continuous to the 

 apex, but between the insertion of antennae it is longitudin- 

 ally impressed in the middle, in two of the three specimens. 



A wide, peculiar, and somewhat depressed-looking species 

 with conspicuous rostral carinae. The clothing on the apical 

 portion of the elytra near the suture is faintly suggestive of 

 vicinus; which, however, is very different in other respects. 

 The black scales, although numerous, are very indistinct from 

 most directions. 



Haplonyx mucidus, n. sp. 



Dull-reddish-brown, sides of sterna somewhat darker. 

 Moderately clothed with whitish setose scales, paler and more 

 regular on the under-surface and legs than on the upper- 

 surface. 



