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Elytra elliptic-cordate, not much but distinctly wider than 

 prothorax, each separately rounded at base ; with rows of 

 rather large partially-concealed punctures in light striae. 

 Pectoral canal terminated at abdomen. Legs rather short ; 

 hind femora not extending to apical segment. Length, 

 1J-1| mm. 



9 . Differs in having the rostrum slightly longer and 

 thinner and with only the extreme base clothed. 



Hah. — South Australia (Macleay Museum); Adelaide 

 (H. H. Griffith); Gawler, beaten from foliage (A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 1781. 



A narrow, minute, elliptic species. The clothing is of 

 an almost snowy whiteness, but sometimes with a faint-bluish 

 tinge, and there are no traces of darker markings on any of 

 the twenty-six specimens before me. Parts of the antennae 

 are quite black, and no part is of a distinct red; the apical 

 fourth, or half, of the rostrum is usually of a more or less 

 distinct red. Its tip, when at rest in the canal, appears 

 almost to touch the abdomen, and the tip of the canal does 

 extend to it. 



AxiONicus iNSiGNis, Pasc, var. interioris, n. var. 



There are six specimens, three of each sex, in the Museum 

 collection that were taken in the Victoria Desert by Mr. 

 Helms during the Elder Expedition, marked as having been 

 obtained under bark of Kurrajong, and identified, without 

 comment, by the late Rev. T. Blackburn, as Axionicus 

 insignis. 



They differ, however, from normal specimens of that 

 species in being decidedly narrower, with somewhat longer 

 legs and with the conspicuous white markings of the normal 

 form either entirely absent, or replaced by stramineous scales 

 and somewhat differently disposed. Thus on all of them the 

 prothorax is without the conspicuous apical patch of the 

 normal form, the postmedian fascia of the elytra is less 

 sharply defined and, although traceable, its presence appears 

 to be marked by sparsity of scales before and after it, rather 

 than to any special character of the scales themselves, as the 

 snowy whiteness of the scales composing the fascia of the 

 normal form. The size varies from 14 to 21 mm. 



Perissops ochreonotatus, n. sp. 



S . Black, in places sometimes obscurely diluted with 

 red, antennae (club excepted) and tarsi red. With numerous 

 spots of ochreous scales; with minute green scales scattered 

 about. Under-surface and legs with whitish and ochreous 

 scales. 



