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gently declivous in front to anterior margin, not excavate 

 between the coxre ; base round, with a small projection behind. 

 Ventral segments smooth. Legs light: femora — anterior thickest, 

 flattened ; intermediate narrow, longer than anterior ; posterior 

 widest in middle, a little sinuate before apex on lower side : 

 tibi;e — anterior wide at apex, ending externally in a strong 

 dentiform projection, external edge smooth ; intermediate with 

 outer edge concave, dilatate at apex, and ending externally in a 

 flattened pointed projection : posterior trochanters smooth, short, 

 regularly oval : posterior tarsi narrow, elongate ; joints 1-4 

 successively shorter, first about as long as two succeeding ones 

 together, last not elongate, convex, hardly narrowed to bn.se. 



Length, 19 ; breadth, 7-25 mm. 



Habitat. — Murchison District, W.A. 



The described species that can be undoubtedly referred to the 

 genus Adotela are A. concolor, Castlen., A. esmeralda, Castlen., 

 A. carenoides, Putz., and A. viridia, Macl. The difference in 

 colour is in itself sufficient to distinguish the first from the second, 

 while the projecting angles of the prothorax at once separates 

 both these from A. carenoides and A. viridis. In the specimen 

 described above, the posterior coxre have two punctures, the 

 " apical " and the " inner marginal.''* 



AMYCTERINI. 



FAM. CURCULIONIDJi. 

 Bv T. G. SLOAXE, F.E.S. 



The Amycteridce of the Eldei.' Exploring Expedition number 

 sixteen species, all belonging to that division of the family charac- 

 terised by having the scape of the antenna passing the eye. I 

 regard all as undescribed species; of this I feel the more confident 

 because I have been able, during a hurried visit to Sydney, to 

 compare them with the types of the Amycterides described by 

 the late Sir William Macleay, and so to assure myself that none 

 was among the species of that author. 



It is not easy to determine the previously-described Amycteridce, 

 owing partly to the close resemblance of many of the .species 

 making their exact description difficult, and partly owing to the 

 lamentable conciseness former authors have adopted in diao-nos- 

 mg their species. To their too-brief descriptions they all, unfor- 



* See note, ante, p. 207- 



