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be slightly excavate, and, on this character, the species would 

 fall, in Pascoe's table of the Euojiiides, beside Amorphoi^hinus . 

 Moreover, Mr. Blair informs me that specimens were placed in 

 Pascoe's collection at the end of that genus. The absence of 

 the supra-ocular crests, inter alia, removes it, however, from 

 A morphorhiniis. 



Brachymycterus auritus, n. sp. 



Small, ovate. Black; densely clothed with cinereous and 

 brownish depressed subpubescence, the lighter colour pre- 

 dominating in fresh specimens, the brown forming maculae, 

 interspersed with metallic reddish-golden pubescence, this 

 predominating along the median line. 



Eostruni short, wide, not excavate ; the upper-surface 

 coarsely punctate, the median line deeply impressed, not 

 differentiated into internal and external ridges. Head convex, 

 a very feeble transverse impression present at the base of the 

 rostrum, but not distinctly separating it from the head. 

 Prothorax (1*75 x 2 mm.) wide, broadest in front of middle, 

 slightly narrowed to apex, luore strongly narrowed to base ; 

 mesial and subapical impressions distinct ; closely set with small 

 but prominent granules, subconical towards the sides. Elytra 

 (4'5 X 3 mm.) wide, gently rounded on sides, more strongly 

 rounded to base and apex ; base gently emarginate, the first, 

 third, and fifth interstices projecting anteriorly ; with regular 

 rows of elongate punctures ; interstices closely set with small 

 granules, obscured by the clothing, more evident posteriorly. 

 Beneath gently concave over the base of abdomen, the meta- 

 sternum and first abdominal segment coarsely punctate. 

 Dim. — 6 '5 X 3 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Cue (H. W. Brown). Type 

 in author's collection. 



The clothing varies somewhat in different specimens, in 

 some the light clothing predominating, in others the darker. 

 The metallic colour is apparent only in certain lights. In the 

 type, which I think is probably a male, there is absolutely no 

 trace of internal rostral ridges, and the head appears to run 

 into the rostrum without interruption ; in another specimen, 

 however, there appear, when viewed from behind, to be two 

 very feeble elevations at the base of the rostrum ; these 

 probably represent the internal ridges. This species adds 

 another to the list of novelties discovered by Mr. Brown in 

 Western Australia. 



CucuLLOTHORAX, u. gen. 

 Rostrum moderately long, separated from the head by a 

 distinct transverse sulcus ; under-surf ace comparatively narrow, 



