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The antenn:« are slightly more than half the length of the 

 whole body (joint 1 about half as long as the space between the 

 eyes is wide, 2 very short, the rest not differing much inter ne in 

 length). The head is a little longer than it is wide across the 

 eyes, and about as long as the basal four joints of the antenna 

 together; the labrum a trifle longer than the clypeus, sulcate 

 down the middle, its front part clothed with short haii's. The 

 prothorax is slightly shorter than the head, about as long as wide 

 (to a casual glance, longer), about as wide as the head, its sides 

 parallel in their hind (and converging forward in their front) half, 

 obscurely impressed on the disc, and deeply transversely near the 

 front. In a certain light a faint luteous vitta seems to run down 

 each elytron. The tibia; are straight. The hind body is too much 

 distorted for accurate description, but seems to be that of a male. 



Not much like any previously-described species; perhaps 

 nearest structurally to Z. bipartitxi, Eairni. 



Murchison district. 



CURCULIONID.E. 

 Beachyderini. 



EVAS. 



E. E cerardensis, sp. nov. Nigra ; squamis albis crassis sat dense 



vestita ; rostro sat crasso, basi capite baud angustiori, 



antrorsum angustato, supra carinis flexuosis circiter 6 



munito; antennis squamosis ; prothorace sat cylindrico, 



quam latiori vix longiori, crebre tuberculato-ruguloso ; 



elytris postice divaricatis acuminatis, leviter striatis, striis 



sat crasse punctulatis, interstitiis vix convexis confertim 



granulatis (exemplorum baud abrasorum sub squamas ab- 



ditis), humeris breviter acutis, lateribus arcuatis. Long., 



41—5 L ; lat., li— 1 J 1- 



Very distinct from the previously described species of the 



genus by its black colour and close vestiture (apparently very 



easily rubbed-ofF) of coarse white scales ; also by the peculiar 



sculpture of its rostrum. 



Everard Kange. 

 E. crassirostris, Pasc. ? The example to which I apply tins name 

 comes too near Mr. Pascoe's description to be justiiiably 

 treated as a new species Mr. Pascoe, however, says that the 

 prothorax in cransirostris is longer than wide. In the insect 

 before me the prothorax appears so to a casual glance, but by 

 careful measurement it is found to be, if anything, wider than 

 long. The elytra are rather thickly clothed with very short 

 inconspicuous curved setie, which Mr. Pascoe does not men- 

 tion in describing his insect, although in the description of 



