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and its remarkable head and rostrum. These latter form together 

 an uninterrupted longitudinally concave surface, with a very large 

 crest over each eye, a smaller one on each side of the rostrum 

 near its base, and a still smaller one on each side near the apex 

 of the rostrum. Most of the specimens I have seen are covered 

 with a brown indumentum, which completely hides all the sculp- 

 ture except the crests of the head and rostrum and the tubercles 

 near the apex of the elytra ; also the whole sculpture of the 

 under-surfaoe. I have described the sculpture from an example 

 from which I have with much difficulty removed the indumentum. 

 The only specimen I have seen without the indumentum is a 

 decidedly pretty insect, closely covered with scales and setie, 

 which almost conceal the sculpture. In that example the crests 

 of the head and rostrum are tipped with bright brown setre, the 

 prothorax is traversed longitudinally by four ribs of brown 

 scales and is variegated with whitish scales on the sides, the 

 interstices of the elytra form alternate brown and blackish vittae, 

 and patches of whitish scales are distributed over the elytra, the 

 most conspicuous being a spot running obliquely hindward 

 towards the suture from the anterior part of the seventh 

 interstice. The legs are thickly clothed with brown scales and 

 hairs. 



iS. Australia ; near Beltaua. 



*//. parallela, sp. no v. Blongata ; parallela ; fusca, squamis 



setisque fuscis cinereisque intermixtis vestita ; rostro minus 



brevi longitudinaliter concave, capite utrinque supra oculos 



obsolete cristate ; prothorace cylindrico quam latiori sat 



longiori, grosse ruguloso-punctulato ; elytris punctulato- 



striatis, interstitiis alternis convexis (.3" toto et 5° postice 



tuberculis remotis ornatis, tuberculis discoidalibus nigris). 



Long., 2f 1. ; lat., ,V 1. 



This species must be referred to Hyphmria, as I can find no 



structural character to distinguish it from EthRtnaia, except that 



the third joint of its tarsi is not bilobed. It is very distinct 



from all its previously-described allies by its very narrow and 



parallel — almost linear — form. The crest on either side of the 



head is very feeble. The antennaj are short, not reaching back 



much behind the front of the prothorax ; the basal joint of the 



funiculus is not much longer than wide, and is much thicker 



than the following joints, which are moniliform and clothed 



with fine hairs. The prothorax is almost perfectly cylindric, its 



front margin a little elevated ; the ashy scales on its surface are 



sprinkled over the surface, but are condensed to form three 



vittte. The prevalent scales on the elyti'a are the cinereous ones ; 



a small black tubercle on the third interstice in front of the 



middle is accompanied by a similar elevation close to it on the 



