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pubescence, but becoming dense on middle of base of pro- 

 thorax, and on the sides of under-surface, especially of the 

 sterna, but metasternal episternum with a conspicuous 

 glabrous spot. 



Head rather wide; with moderately large, deep, well- 

 defined punctures, with a narrow median line, and a narrow 

 line near each eye, these large and prominent. Rostrum 

 scarcely as long as width of head across eyes, with two sharp 

 projections at tip; base with punctures much as on head, 

 elsewhere polished and with small punctures. Antennae 

 moderately long, seven basal joints thin, the others consider- 

 ably wider, second joint the length of fourth, slightly shorter 

 than first, and 'much shorter than third, eleventh about once 

 and one-fourth the length of tenth. Prothorax rather strongly 

 transverse, sides moderately rounded, base strongly bisinuate 

 and conspicuously wider than apex, which is truncate, median 

 line narrow in front, interrupted in middle and rather deep 

 at base ; with sharply defined punctures near middle of base, 

 but granulate-punctate elsewhere. Scutellum short and 

 strongly transverse, conspicuously cutting into bases of elytra. 

 Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, shoulders strongly 

 rounded, sides almost parallel to beyond the middle, apices 

 conjointly acutely produced ; with close series of small, deep 

 punctures, the interstices granulate; a conspicuous shining 

 elevated line near the middle of each elytron, from about the 

 basal fifth to about the apical fifth, each side dilated adjacent 

 to metasternum, and with a marginal row of granules. Legs 

 rather stout ; femora edentate, hind pair passing apex of 

 second abdominal segment ; tibiae lightly denticulate on lower 

 surface ; basal joint of tarsi slightly longer than second and 

 third combined, and distinctly longer than claw-joint. 

 Length, 8 mm. 



H(il>. — New South Wales: Dorrigo (W. Heron). Type 

 (unique), I. 7873. 



T think it improbable that this species will be allowed to 

 remain in Vacliyiira, but short of proposing a new genus for 

 its reception, that is the only one to which it can be referred 

 at present. In my table of genera of the subfamily (3 * ] the 

 species would be associated with Agnesiotis, to which it is not 

 at all close; in that table Pachyura is placed with the genera 

 having the elytra trisinuate at base, this is usually but not 

 always the case ; the present species has the elytra acute at 

 the apex, but the tip of its rostrum is much as on the preceding 

 species, which also has the elytra (although otherwise very 

 different) somewhat similar at the base. The rostrum is 



i34i AVytsman's Gen. Insect. Fsw., 91, pp. 2, :}. 



